The mistaken recompense, or, The great damage and very many mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably happen to the King and his people by the taking away of the King's præemption and pourveyance or compositions for them by Fabian Phillipps, Esquire.
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           THE
           Mistaken
           Recompence
           ;
           OR
           The
           great
           Damage
           and
           very
           many
           Mischiefs
           and
           Inconveniences
           which
           will
           inevitably
           happen
           to
           the
           KING
           And
           His
           PEOPLE
           ,
           By
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           the
           KING'S
           Praeemption
           and
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           .
        
         
           By
           
             FABIAN
             PHILIPPS
          
           Esquire
           .
        
         
           
             —
             Sic
             maesta
             Senectus
          
           
             Praeteritiquè
             memor
             flebat
             metuensquè
             futuri
          
           
             Lucan
             .
             lib.
             3
             ,
          
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           
             R.
             Hodgkinson
          
           for
           the
           Author
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           by
           
             Henry
             Brome
          
           at
           the
           Gun
           in
           Ivy-Lane
           ,
           1664.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           Old-fashioned
           and
           True-hearted
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           others
           of
           the
           English
           Nation
           ,
           and
           all
           who
           are
           wel-wishers
           to
           the
           Honour
           and
           Happiness
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           THe
           designe
           of
           these
           few
           sheets
           of
           paper
           in
           a
           second
           Justification
           of
           the
           Antiquity
           ,
           Legality
           ,
           Use
           ,
           Right
           ,
           Reason
           ,
           and
           Necessity
           of
           the
           Kings
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           a
           Demonstration
           of
           the
           many
           great
           Mischiefs
           and
           Inconveniences
           which
           will
           unavoydably
           happen
           both
           to
           the
           King
           and
           his
           People
           by
           the
           taking
           of
           them
           away
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           endeavours
           of
           a
           larger
           Treatise
           ,
           is
           not
           only
           to
           epitomize
           some
           part
           of
           what
           is
           therein
           already
           expressed
           ,
           but
           to
           add
           many
           things
           which
           were
           before
           omitted
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           that
           such
           as
           being
           imployed
           in
           the
           publique
           cares
           and
           concernments
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           &
           have
           very
           little
           or
           no
           spare
           time
           at
           all
           to
           converse
           with
           books
           ,
           or
           that
           those
           who
           do
           preferre
           the
           interests
           of
           their
           vanities
           or
           avarice
           before
           such
           better
           company
           ,
           may
           with
           no
           great
           trouble
           or
           labour
           ,
           read
           that
           which
           is
           more
           at
           large
           to
           be
           seen
           in
           the
           former
           Book
           :
           but
           to
           take
           off
           the
           Opinion
           and
           Objections
           lately
           made
           of
           some
           who
           would
           perswade
           themselves
           &
           others
           ,
           that
           the
           Compositions
           for
           the
           Kings
           Prae-emption
           and
           Pourveyance
           either
           taken
           
           for
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           served
           into
           his
           House
           in
           kind
           or
           money
           ,
           or
           by
           allowances
           for
           them
           ,
           were
           when
           they
           were
           paid
           or
           served
           ,
           a
           great
           burden
           to
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           none
           or
           very
           little
           profit
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           by
           that
           time
           that
           the
           cozening
           of
           so
           many
           Officers
           and
           Servants
           in
           his
           Household
           ,
           and
           their
           appetites
           of
           spoyl
           and
           rapine
           by
           their
           selling
           the
           Kings
           meat
           as
           well
           cooked
           and
           dressed
           as
           undressed
           ,
           and
           of
           his
           bread
           ,
           beer
           ,
           and
           all
           manner
           of
           household
           provisions
           to
           the
           Inhabitants
           &
           Housekeepers
           in
           the
           parts
           adjacent
           were
           satisfyed
           ,
           and
           other
           their
           purloyning
           and
           trimly
           varnished
           over
           pilfrings
           and
           disorders
           ,
           which
           an
           unpaid
           Army
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           unruly
           Camps
           of
           Souldiers
           or
           military
           men
           are
           not
           often
           guilty
           of
           ;
           and
           the
           tricks
           and
           artifices
           of
           the
           Pourveyors
           and
           Managers
           of
           the
           houshold
           provisions
           which
           in
           Queen
           Elizabeths
           time
           made
           a
           Kentish
           Yeoman
           pleasantly
           demand
           of
           her
           ,
           being
           in
           her
           Progresse
           ,
           when
           she
           was
           pleased
           to
           talk
           a
           little
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           he
           perceived
           she
           was
           the
           Queen
           ,
           
             If
             it
             were
             she
             that
             did
             eat
             up
             all
             his
             Poultry
             ,
          
           which
           upon
           her
           second
           thoughts
           and
           examination
           ,
           and
           proof
           made
           of
           the
           knavery
           of
           one
           of
           her
           Pourveyors
           ,
           procured
           him
           shortly
           after
           a
           legal
           and
           wel-deserved
           hanging
           .
           That
           too
           many
           of
           his
           Majesties
           Servants
           employed
           in
           the
           Affairs
           of
           his
           Houshold
           Provisions
           ▪
           are
           little
           better
           then
           Theeves
           in
           an
           yearly
           Pay
           or
           Pension
           ,
           ravening
           Tartars
           ,
           or
           neatly
           cozening
           Banyans
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           Jews
           ,
           or
           the
           most
           nimble
           
             Cut-purses
             ,
             Jugglers
          
           ,
           or
           Hocus-pocusses
           do
           not
           ,
           if
           any
           thing
           at
           all
           ,
           much
           out-do
           them
           .
           But
           that
           being
           said
           and
           imagined
           only
           ,
           and
           not
           ever
           likely
           to
           be
           admitted
           into
           the
           virge
           of
           Truth
           or
           Evidence
           ,
           will
           for
           the
           most
           part
           be
           proved
           to
           be
           meer
           suggestions
           contrived
           and
           cast
           abroad
           by
           the
           insinuations
           of
           some
           who
           do
           seek
           to
           preserve
           their
           own
           ,
           as
           they
           deem
           it
           happiness
           ,
           and
           increase
           of
           fortunes
           ,
           by
           the
           ruine
           and
           miseries
           of
           multitudes
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           
           will
           take
           up
           reports
           ,
           as
           many
           Gentlemen
           do
           Tradesmens
           deceitfull
           Wares
           upon
           trust
           ,
           and
           will
           prove
           to
           be
           no
           otherwise
           then
           as
           the
           blind
           man
           in
           the
           Gospel
           did
           in
           believing
           men
           to
           be
           walking
           Trees
           ,
           when
           that
           which
           made
           them
           seem
           to
           be
           that
           which
           they
           were
           not
           ,
           was
           his
           own
           mistakings
           ,
           and
           by
           those
           ,
           and
           other
           ungrounded
           scandalls
           ,
           do
           as
           much
           service
           to
           the
           King
           by
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           devouring
           Ingrossers
           do
           usually
           do
           unto
           the
           People
           ,
           when
           they
           take
           away
           the
           more
           honest
           gains
           of
           the
           Retailers
           ,
           to
           create
           unto
           themselves
           a
           liberty
           of
           imposing
           what
           rates
           they
           please
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           may
           be
           easily
           enough
           convinced
           by
           a
           discreet
           and
           juditious
           examination
           of
           particulars
           ,
           h●aring
           of
           parties
           accused
           ,
           survey
           of
           the
           excellent
           Orders
           and
           Government
           of
           the
           Royall
           Houshold
           ,
           (
           which
           are
           so
           exact
           ,
           and
           limiting
           every
           Officer
           to
           their
           Liveryes
           ,
           or
           stinted
           proportions
           ,
           as
           some
           antient
           and
           very
           able
           knowing
           Officers
           of
           the
           Houshold
           who
           do
           well
           deserve
           to
           be
           believed
           ,
           have
           averred
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           ready
           to
           assert
           that
           the
           Orders
           of
           the
           Kings
           House
           are
           so
           very
           watchfull
           ,
           vigilant
           ,
           and
           preventing
           of
           chea●s
           and
           cozenings
           ,
           as
           without
           a●
           universal
           combination
           of
           all
           the
           Servants
           of
           the
           Kings
           House
           ▪
           which
           is
           never
           likely
           to
           be
           accomplished
           it
           is
           impossible
           that
           there
           can
           be
           so
           much
           as
           a
           Loaf
           or
           Manchet
           cozened
           from
           the
           King
           )
           and
           the
           daily
           care
           of
           the
           Lord
           Steward
           ,
           White-staved
           Officers
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Green-cloth
           ,
           although
           the
           yearly
           Salaries
           and
           Pensions
           be
           the
           same
           for
           the
           most
           part
           which
           were
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Seaventh
           ,
           when
           the
           Kings
           provisions
           were
           so
           near
           the
           th●n
           cheap
           Market
           rates
           and
           prices
           ,
           as
           they
           had
           not
           so
           much
           as
           an
           aspect
           of
           grievance
           ,
           when
           ten
           thousand
           pounds
           was
           a
           good
           Dowry
           for
           the
           Kings
           Daughter
           in
           marriage
           with
           the
           King
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           
           ten
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           a
           good
           Annuity
           for
           a
           Kinsman
           to
           an
           Earle
           ,
           a
           penny
           was
           but
           reckoned
           to
           an
           Earle
           of
           Oxford
           by
           his
           Wardrobe
           
           keepers
           for
           a
           pair
           of
           Gloves
           for
           his
           own
           wearing
           ,
           and
           the
           value
           of
           silver
           by
           the
           ounce
           was
           then
           but
           little
           more
           then
           half
           a
           Crown
           ,
           
           and
           but
           creeping
           up
           towards
           three
           shillings
           four
           pence
           the
           ounce
           :
           and
           
             Nicholas
             West
          
           Bishop
           of
           Ely
           in
           the
           23th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Hen●y
           the
           Eighth
           ▪
           keeping
           yearly
           one
           hundred
           Servants
           in
           his
           house
           ,
           gave
           the
           Gentlemen
           and
           better
           sort
           of
           them
           but
           
             53
             s.
             4
             d.
          
           and
           to
           the
           inferiour
           sort
           but
           
             40
             s.
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           and
           the
           next
           year
           after
           that
           the
           ounce
           of
           silver
           was
           brought
           up
           to
           
             3
             s.
             4
             d.
          
           a
           fat
           Ox
           was
           sold
           at
           London
           for
           six
           and
           twenty
           shillings
           ,
           Beef
           and
           Pork
           for
           an
           half-penny
           a
           pound
           ,
           and
           a
           half
           penny
           farthing
           a
           pound
           for
           Veal
           and
           Mutton
           ,
           was
           by
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           in
           that
           year
           understood
           to
           be
           a
           reasonable
           price
           ,
           and
           with
           gain
           enough
           afforded
           ;
           and
           due
           consideration
           shall
           be
           had
           of
           the
           necessary
           differences
           which
           are
           to
           be
           observed
           betwixt
           the
           Pensions
           ,
           allowances
           and
           expences
           of
           many
           of
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           of
           the
           best
           extraction
           and
           houses
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           serving
           and
           attending
           in
           the
           Kings
           House
           :
           those
           that
           stand
           before
           Princes
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           clothed
           ,
           as
           the
           holy
           Book
           of
           God
           hath
           told
           us
           ,
           with
           Silk
           and
           soft
           Raiments
           ;
           and
           those
           that
           are
           none
           of
           these
           ,
           but
           do
           serve
           and
           take
           wages
           in
           Houses
           and
           Families
           of
           private
           men
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           Majesty
           and
           Honour
           of
           a
           King
           in
           the
           Order
           and
           splendour
           of
           his
           House
           is
           not
           to
           be
           reduced
           to
           the
           pattern
           of
           private
           Housekeepers
           ,
           and
           the
           narrow
           and
           unbeseeming
           Customes
           of
           their
           smaller
           Estates
           and
           Families
           .
           That
           the
           wast
           of
           honor
           and
           the
           more
           then
           ordinary
           Fragments
           left
           in
           the
           Kings
           House
           ,
           as
           the
           remainders
           of
           the
           Dyet
           provided
           for
           him
           and
           his
           servants
           for
           the
           food
           and
           sustenance
           of
           the
           Poor
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           will
           be
           glad
           of
           it
           ,
           are
           but
           the
           requisites
           and
           appurtenances
           to
           the
           Majesty
           and
           Honor
           of
           a
           King
           ,
           that
           Sir
           
             Richard
             Weston
          
           afterwards
           Earle
           of
           Portland
           ,
           and
           Lord
           High
           Treasurer
           
           of
           England
           ,
           Sir
           
             John
             Wo●stenholme
          
           Knight
           ,
           Sir
           
             William
             P●t●
          
           ,
           and
           others
           ,
           commissioned
           by
           King
           James
           to
           make
           a
           Reiglement
           and
           Espa●gne
           in
           his
           house-keeping
           ,
           being
           men
           of
           known
           and
           great
           experience
           in
           the
           management
           of
           their
           own
           Estates
           ,
           could
           not
           then
           find
           any
           such
           things
           as
           have
           been
           since
           laid
           to
           the
           charge
           of
           the
           Kings
           Officers
           and
           Servants
           in
           his
           House
           ,
           that
           the
           pretensions
           not
           long
           after
           of
           better
           husbandry
           in
           the
           Kings
           House
           by
           some
           niggardly
           contrivances
           ,
           and
           serving
           some
           of
           the
           Tables
           with
           half
           a
           Goose
           instead
           of
           a
           whole
           ,
           came
           to
           no
           more
           at
           the
           last
           then
           the
           obtaining
           of
           the
           pretenders
           self
           ends
           ,
           and
           an
           Annuity
           of
           
             500l
             .
             per
             annum
          
           for
           th●
           lives
           of
           the
           pretender
           &
           his
           wife
           ,
           and
           the
           longer
           liver
           of
           them
           ,
           that
           the
           Lord
           Chamberlain
           of
           the
           Kings
           Housholds
           yearly
           Fee
           of
           
             100
             l.
          
           the
           Treasurer
           of
           the
           Housholds
           yearly
           Fee
           of
           
             123l
             .
             —
             14s
          
           .
           and
           the
           Cofferers
           yearly
           Fee
           of
           100l
           .
           measured
           and
           proportioned
           to
           the
           antient
           and
           former
           cheapness
           and
           means
           of
           livelihood
           ,
           would
           have
           even
           then
           been
           very
           deficient
           for
           the
           support
           of
           such
           persons
           of
           Honor
           and
           Quality
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           not
           had
           at
           the
           same
           time
           some
           seldome
           falling
           expectations
           of
           other
           favours
           and
           rewards
           from
           a
           Princely
           Master
           ,
           and
           a
           present
           liberal
           allowance
           for
           their
           Tables
           ,
           which
           although
           it
           doth
           now
           stand
           the
           King
           ,
           by
           the
           enhance
           of
           his
           rates
           and
           prices
           ,
           in
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           then
           it
           did
           formerly
           ,
           yet
           unto
           those
           that
           received
           those
           allowances
           for
           their
           Tables
           and
           Dyet
           ,
           it
           is
           no
           more
           then
           formerly
           :
           for
           if
           an
           estimate
           were
           taken
           how
           much
           it
           would
           cost
           the
           King
           to
           make
           and
           encrease
           the
           Salaries
           and
           wages
           of
           his
           Servants
           and
           Officers
           of
           all
           ranks
           and
           sorts
           ,
           which
           in
           all
           the
           several
           Offices
           and
           Places
           ,
           and
           Dependencies
           about
           the
           persons
           of
           the
           King
           and
           Queen
           are
           above
           one
           thousand
           ,
           all
           or
           most
           of
           whom
           did
           when
           the
           Tables
           and
           Diets
           were
           allowed
           ,
           intercommune
           ,
           one
           with
           
           another
           ,
           and
           were
           with
           many
           also
           of
           their
           Servants
           fed
           with
           the
           Kings
           Victuals
           ,
           and
           Houshold
           Provisions
           ,
           to
           be
           according
           unto
           the
           rates
           of
           wages
           &
           Salaries
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           as
           they
           are
           now
           taken
           and
           given
           in
           private
           Families
           and
           all
           were
           to
           be
           paid
           in
           money
           ,
           and
           nothing
           in
           dyet
           ,
           the
           Kings
           Treasury
           ,
           Purse
           ,
           or
           Estate
           would
           soon
           be
           brought
           to
           understand
           ,
           that
           such
           increased
           Allowances
           ,
           or
           other
           Allowances
           ,
           Pensions
           ,
           Wages
           and
           Salaries
           ,
           which
           must
           according
           to
           the
           rise
           and
           enhance
           of
           all
           manner
           of
           things
           conducing
           to
           the
           support
           and
           livelihood
           of
           such
           Servants
           be
           now
           necessarily
           paid
           and
           given
           over
           and
           above
           the
           antient
           Fees
           and
           Salaries
           ,
           would
           arise
           and
           amount
           unto
           more
           then
           all
           the
           charge
           of
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           whether
           it
           were
           thirty
           and
           five
           thousand
           pounds
           a
           year
           ,
           or
           fifty
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           which
           was
           laid
           and
           charged
           upon
           the
           Counties
           ,
           or
           more
           then
           the
           King
           is
           unjustly
           supposed
           to
           be
           deceived
           or
           cheated
           by
           his
           servants
           ,
           or
           those
           which
           do
           direct
           the
           affairs
           of
           his
           Houshold
           ;
           when
           it
           cannot
           escape
           every
           private
           mans
           Judgement
           and
           experience
           in
           house-keeping
           that
           he
           that
           doth
           give
           his
           servants
           forty
           shillings
           
             per
             annum
          
           Salary
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           more
           to
           be
           added
           unto
           it
           in
           certain
           Fees
           and
           Profits
           well
           known
           ,
           and
           calculated
           to
           amount
           unto
           no
           more
           then
           another
           forty
           shillings
           
             per
             annum
          
           .
           doth
           give
           his
           servant
           but
           four
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           in
           the
           totall
           ,
           and
           is
           not
           at
           all
           cozened
           therein
           ;
           and
           that
           it
           would
           otherwise
           be
           no
           Honour
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           but
           a
           diminution
           of
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           a
           temptation
           or
           necessity
           enforced
           upon
           his
           servants
           to
           deceive
           him
           ,
           if
           the
           Serjeant
           of
           the
           Ewrie
           and
           the
           Serjeant
           of
           the
           Bakehouse
           ,
           to
           mention
           but
           a
           few
           of
           many
           ,
           should
           have
           but
           their
           antient
           and
           bare
           Salaries
           of
           
             11
             l.
             —
             8
             s.
             —
             1
             d.
             per
             annum
             ,
          
           and
           want
           their
           antiently
           allowed
           Avails
           and
           Perquisites
           .
           That
           such
           short
           and
           now
           far
           too
           little
           Wages
           and
           Salaries
           to
           be
           given
           to
           the
           
           Kings
           Servants
           in
           their
           several
           honourable
           and
           worshipfull
           Stations
           ,
           would
           be
           unworthy
           for
           them
           to
           receive
           ,
           and
           dishonorable
           for
           the
           King
           to
           give
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           the
           no
           inconsiderable
           summe
           of
           money
           which
           was
           yearly
           and
           usually
           saved
           by
           the
           venditions
           of
           the
           over-plus
           of
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           imployed
           in
           the
           buying
           of
           Linnen
           and
           Utensils
           for
           the
           service
           of
           the
           House
           ;
           the
           now
           yearly
           allowances
           for
           Diet
           to
           eight
           principall
           great
           Officers
           and
           to
           seaven
           of
           the
           next
           principall
           Officers
           ,
           and
           what
           his
           Majesty
           payeth
           yearly
           to
           others
           for
           Board-wages
           ,
           and
           what
           is
           enhanced
           and
           laid
           upon
           him
           by
           unreasonable
           rates
           and
           prices
           ,
           now
           that
           his
           Officers
           are
           constrained
           to
           buy
           with
           ready
           money
           ,
           and
           to
           pay
           a
           barbarous
           Interest
           and
           Brocage
           to
           provide
           it
           ,
           compared
           with
           what
           he
           now
           spends
           in
           his
           private
           allowances
           for
           his
           own
           and
           the
           Queens
           Diet
           ,
           and
           some
           other
           few
           yet
           allowed
           Tables
           ,
           will
           make
           a
           most
           certain
           and
           lamentable
           demonstration
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Honor
           were
           gainers
           by
           the
           Pourveyance
           os
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           very
           great
           loosers
           by
           the
           taking
           of
           them
           away
           .
           And
           that
           he
           did
           meet
           with
           a
           very
           
             ill
             Bargain
          
           by
           the
           Exchange
           of
           his
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           for
           a
           supposed
           recompence
           of
           
             Fifty
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           intended
           him
           out
           of
           the
           Moiety
           of
           the
           Excise
           of
           Ale
           ,
           Beer
           ,
           Perry
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           But
           if
           the
           abuses
           committed
           by
           the
           Servants
           and
           Officers
           of
           the
           King
           within
           the
           house
           were
           so
           great
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           at
           all
           ,
           as
           is
           pretended
           (
           for
           as
           to
           the
           Pourveyors
           ,
           and
           those
           that
           act
           without
           dores
           ,
           the
           Law
           hath
           sufficiently
           provided
           )
           they
           may
           certainly
           be
           rectified
           and
           brought
           under
           a
           reformation
           ,
           without
           the
           abolishing
           or
           totall
           taking
           away
           of
           the
           right
           use
           of
           them
           ,
           or
           that
           which
           cannot
           be
           spared
           ,
           or
           by
           any
           means
           be
           abandoned
           ,
           but
           may
           be
           dealt
           with
           ,
           as
           we
           
           do
           by
           our
           Wines
           ,
           Victuals
           ,
           or
           Apparel
           ,
           which
           as
           necessaries
           of
           life
           are
           in
           their
           right
           use
           to
           be
           kept
           and
           reteyned
           ,
           notwithstanding
           any
           misusage
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           Or
           if
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           were
           so
           much
           diverted
           from
           the
           use
           intended
           by
           them
           ,
           yet
           that
           will
           not
           be
           any
           reason
           for
           the
           quitting
           of
           them
           without
           a
           due
           exchange
           or
           recompence
           ,
           for
           that
           if
           they
           were
           all
           of
           them
           ,
           (
           as
           is
           meerly
           fained
           or
           fanci●d
           )
           mispent
           or
           misimployed
           yet
           those
           that
           do
           mispend
           them
           ,
           and
           they
           that
           have
           the
           benefit
           of
           them
           (
           not
           that
           I
           would
           be
           an
           Advocate
           to
           justifie
           the
           selling
           of
           the
           Kings
           meat
           or
           houshold
           provisions
           unto
           any
           in
           the
           Neighbourhood
           ,
           or
           any
           accursed
           cheatings
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           which
           I
           wish
           might
           be
           punished
           as
           Felony
           )
           are
           neither
           Enemies
           or
           Strangers
           to
           the
           Nation
           ,
           but
           the
           Kings
           Subjects
           and
           Servants
           ,
           and
           the
           Children
           ,
           Friends
           and
           Kinred
           of
           many
           of
           those
           which
           do
           contribute
           towards
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ;
           and
           that
           which
           is
           so
           misimployed
           ,
           serves
           instead
           of
           some
           other
           largesses
           ,
           allowances
           ,
           or
           connivencies
           ,
           which
           are
           usually
           in
           Kings
           Houses
           ;
           and
           whether
           well
           spent
           or
           mispent
           ,
           being
           Oblations
           and
           Offerings
           of
           duty
           made
           by
           the
           People
           to
           their
           Sovereign
           ,
           are
           not
           to
           be
           denyed
           or
           retrenched
           ,
           no
           more
           then
           the
           misbehaviour
           of
           the
           Sons
           of
           Ely
           ,
           with
           which
           the
           Almighty
           was
           so
           much
           offended
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           any
           just
           cause
           of
           the
           Children
           of
           Israels
           forbearing
           to
           bring
           their
           Offerings
           .
        
         
           It
           being
           no
           Paradox
           ,
           but
           certain
           enough
           that
           those
           seeming
           ,
           but
           not
           reall
           grievances
           to
           the
           People
           ,
           by
           the
           Kings
           Prae-emption
           and
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           have
           no
           other
           source
           or
           originall
           ,
           then
           the
           rise
           and
           enhance
           of
           the
           Markets
           ,
           and
           all
           Victualls
           and
           Provisions
           ,
           by
           which
           all
           the
           selling
           and
           richer
           part
           of
           the
           People
           are
           ten
           to
           one
           more
           gainers
           by
           the
           Kings
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           then
           they
           can
           be
           loosers
           ,
           and
           are
           better
           able
           
           to
           bear
           it
           ;
           and
           the
           poorer
           sort
           of
           the
           people
           were
           less
           grieved
           when
           it
           was
           not
           taken
           away
           ,
           then
           they
           are
           now
           by
           the
           Excise
           of
           Ale
           ,
           Beer
           ,
           &c.
           which
           comes
           in
           the
           place
           or
           pretended
           recompence
           of
           it
           ,
           that
           the
           Gentry
           and
           Landlords
           of
           the
           Lands
           in
           the
           Nation
           ,
           who
           by
           heating
           of
           those
           Lands
           that
           were
           cold
           ,
           drayning
           and
           drying
           of
           those
           that
           were
           wet
           and
           moist
           ,
           watering
           of
           such
           as
           were
           dry
           and
           sandy
           ,
           and
           planting
           of
           Wood
           and
           Fruit
           ,
           have
           brought
           their
           lands
           to
           a
           greater
           increase
           and
           fertility
           ,
           not
           yet
           come
           to
           its
           Acme
           or
           just
           height
           ,
           then
           the
           former
           ages
           ,
           and
           a
           
             thousand
             years
          
           knowledge
           or
           practise
           of
           our
           Forefathers
           ,
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           this
           Nation
           could
           before
           this
           last
           Age
           or
           Century
           wherein
           we
           are
           now
           ▪
           ever
           reach
           or
           attain
           unto
           :
           and
           the
           Landlords
           of
           Houses
           ,
           Innes
           ,
           Taverns
           ,
           Shops
           ,
           or
           Stalls
           in
           London
           ,
           who
           have
           now
           by
           the
           increase
           of
           Tradesmen
           rather
           then
           Trade
           raised
           their
           rents
           ten
           or
           twenty
           to
           one
           more
           then
           what
           they
           were
           
             One
             hundred
             years
          
           agoe
           ,
           might
           in
           some
           measure
           or
           moderation
           have
           taken
           their
           advantages
           of
           the
           improvements
           of
           their
           Lands
           ,
           Rents
           ,
           Houses
           ,
           and
           Shops
           ,
           without
           such
           an
           overstretching
           their
           Rents
           ,
           as
           the
           Tenants
           where
           they
           have
           no
           Leases
           ,
           but
           at
           will
           or
           from
           year
           to
           year
           in
           some
           Counties
           of
           England
           should
           be
           enforced
           ,
           as
           many
           have
           lately
           been
           to
           throw
           up
           and
           forsake
           their
           Bargains
           ;
           And
           that
           all
           or
           any
           of
           that
           over-high
           racking
           the
           Rents
           of
           Lands
           and
           Houses
           ,
           or
           a
           supposed
           plenty
           of
           money
           ,
           (
           which
           in
           the
           time
           of
           the
           greatest
           enhance
           and
           rack
           of
           rents
           ,
           rates
           ,
           and
           prices
           which
           ever
           England
           did
           see
           or
           endure
           ,
           is
           now
           so
           scarcely
           to
           be
           found
           ,
           as
           the
           universality
           of
           the
           people
           do
           heavily
           complain
           of
           the
           want
           of
           it
           )
           and
           the
           product
           or
           consequence
           of
           that
           evil
           in
           a
           like
           enhance
           of
           rates
           and
           prices
           by
           the
           Freeholders
           and
           Copyholders
           ,
           who
           pay
           no
           rents
           ,
           (
           as
           Farmers
           do
           )
           and
           by
           the
           Tenants
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           Queen
           ,
           Prince
           ,
           or
           Bishops
           ,
           &
           some
           
           of
           the
           hospitable
           and
           well
           minded
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           the
           Tenants
           of
           the
           Church
           and
           Colledge
           Lands
           ,
           and
           of
           Lands
           belonging
           to
           Cities
           ,
           Corporations
           ,
           Companies
           ,
           and
           Hospitals
           ,
           who
           have
           cheap
           and
           comfortable
           Estates
           and
           Bargains
           ,
           and
           yet
           do
           all
           they
           can
           to
           imitate
           them
           ,
           although
           they
           have
           no
           cause
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           which
           would
           be
           much
           higher
           .
        
         
           If
           all
           the
           Copihold
           Estates
           in
           England
           and
           Wales
           were
           at
           as
           great
           a
           rack
           of
           rent
           as
           the
           Lands
           of
           the
           most
           of
           Farmers
           .
        
         
           If
           all
           the
           Privileges
           and
           Rights
           of
           Common
           Estovers
           and
           Turbary
           ,
           
             Modus
             decimandi
          
           ,
           and
           Exemption
           from
           the
           payment
           of
           Tythes
           and
           Tolls
           were
           abrogated
           .
        
         
           And
           if
           the
           King
           should
           keep
           the
           same
           rule
           and
           measure
           of
           high
           rating
           and
           racking
           of
           his
           Revenues
           certain
           or
           casuall
           ,
           as
           many
           Landlords
           do
           ;
           Or
           make
           our
           East-India
           Merchants
           pay
           for
           their
           licence
           or
           priviledge
           of
           trading
           to
           the
           East-Indies
           ,
           
           all
           others
           being
           excluded
           for
           one
           and
           twenty
           years
           ,
           a
           share
           or
           proportion
           amounting
           in
           the
           whole
           very
           near
           a
           Million
           sterling
           money
           ,
           as
           the
           Dutch
           have
           made
           their
           East-India
           Company
           to
           do
           ,
           could
           not
           be
           the
           only
           proper
           or
           efficient
           causes
           of
           that
           long-strided
           and
           swift
           progresse
           ,
           and
           increase
           of
           the
           rates
           and
           prices
           not
           only
           of
           victuals
           and
           all
           houshold
           provisions
           ,
           but
           of
           all
           manner
           of
           commodities
           ,
           apparel
           and
           necessaries
           either
           for
           use
           or
           ornament
           .
        
         
           So
           as
           we
           shall
           not
           conclude
           without
           premisses
           ,
           or
           be
           thought
           to
           want
           a
           ground
           or
           foundation
           of
           an
           irrefragable
           truth
           ,
           that
           Lucifer
           the
           great
           Merchant
           and
           furnisher
           of
           our
           sins
           and
           excess
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           great
           and
           intollerable
           pride
           of
           all
           the
           degrees
           and
           ranks
           of
           men
           ,
           women
           ,
           children
           ,
           and
           servants
           in
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           far
           beyond
           the
           former
           ages
           as
           a
           Giant
           is
           to
           a
           Pigmee
           ,
           or
           Pauls
           Steeple
           in
           London
           when
           it
           was
           highest
           ,
           to
           the
           
             Pissing
             Conduit
          
           (
           as
           they
           call
           
           it
           )
           in
           Cheapside
           ,
           and
           the
           avarice
           of
           the
           people
           to
           maintain
           it
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           necessities
           attending
           their
           pride
           and
           vanities
           ,
           have
           been
           no
           small
           part
           of
           the
           cause
           of
           it
           ;
           for
           otherwise
           it
           would
           have
           been
           some
           difficulty
           to
           find
           or
           give
           a
           reason
           why
           we
           should
           not
           in
           England
           ,
           a
           Kingdome
           ,
           untill
           our
           late
           times
           of
           confusion
           ,
           of
           the
           greatest
           peace
           and
           plenty
           in
           Christendome
           ,
           be
           able
           to
           afford
           victuals
           ,
           and
           all
           manner
           of
           provisions
           for
           the
           belly
           and
           back
           as
           cheap
           as
           in
           France
           ,
           where
           notwithstanding
           the
           heavy
           oppressions
           and
           burdens
           of
           the
           Paysants
           ,
           who
           do
           fare
           hard
           ,
           and
           are
           ill
           clad
           ;
           and
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           frugality
           of
           most
           of
           the
           Gentry
           ,
           a
           Partridge
           may
           be
           bought
           for
           
             ●our
             pence
          
           ,
           and
           a
           Gentleman
           and
           his
           horse
           at
           night
           be
           very
           well
           entertaind
           for
           
             four
             shillings
          
           :
           or
           as
           in
           Spain
           ,
           where
           a
           Bando
           is
           yearly
           made
           by
           the
           Corrigidores
           of
           every
           City
           and
           Place
           (
           which
           the
           Civil
           Law
           doth
           allow
           and
           direct
           ,
           
           and
           our
           Laws
           of
           England
           do
           as
           to
           victuals
           also
           intend
           )
           setting
           yearly
           the
           rates
           and
           prices
           not
           only
           of
           all
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           provisions
           for
           the
           belly
           ,
           and
           of
           fruit
           and
           Apples
           ,
           but
           of
           all
           Commodities
           ,
           as
           Linnen
           and
           Woollen
           Cloth
           ,
           Silk
           ,
           Knives
           ,
           Ha●s
           ,
           &c.
           where
           notwithstanding
           their
           continuall
           Warres
           ,
           and
           multitudes
           of
           heavy
           Taxes
           to
           mainteyn
           them
           ,
           there
           is
           a
           cheapness
           of
           victuals
           ,
           and
           such
           an
           absence
           of
           deceit
           ,
           as
           a
           child
           ,
           or
           the
           most
           ignorant
           way
           as
           to
           measure
           ,
           weight
           ,
           and
           prices
           ,
           buy
           and
           not
           be
           deceived
           .
           Or
           as
           is
           in
           the
           same
           manner
           done
           at
           
             Rome
             ,
             Naples
             ,
             Florence
             ,
             Milan
             ,
          
           and
           most
           of
           the
           Principalities
           of
           Italy
           ,
           not
           so
           freed
           from
           publick
           Burdens
           as
           our
           more
           happy
           England
           is
           at
           this
           present
           ;
           which
           neither
           would
           nor
           could
           be
           there
           ever
           submitted
           unto
           and
           obeyed
           as
           it
           is
           ,
           if
           the
           pride
           and
           necessities
           ,
           or
           avarice
           of
           the
           Landlords
           ,
           and
           the
           pride
           of
           the
           Tenants
           (
           which
           the
           Pragmatico's
           forbidding
           the
           pride
           and
           excess
           of
           apparel
           ,
           do
           in
           Spain
           
           very
           much
           eradicate
           )
           were
           not
           less
           then
           ours
           ,
           and
           their
           frugalities
           more
           ;
           and
           such
           restrictions
           and
           reglements
           thereby
           made
           to
           be
           the
           more
           tolerable
           and
           contenting
           .
        
         
           And
           those
           that
           do
           like
           it
           more
           then
           they
           should
           ,
           and
           shall
           be
           content
           to
           imploy
           their
           times
           in
           the
           pursuit
           of
           vanities
           ,
           and
           means
           to
           mainteyn
           it
           ,
           and
           forsaking
           the
           old
           and
           good
           wayes
           ,
           and
           seeking
           gain
           ,
           do
           sacrifice
           unto
           
             their
             nets
          
           ,
           and
           
             burn
             incense
             unto
             their
             drags
          
           ,
           may
           have
           that
           said
           unto
           them
           which
           the
           Apostle
           
             St.
             Paul
          
           did
           ●n
           another
           case
           to
           the
           Romans
           ;
           what
           fruit
           have
           the
           intollerable
           pride
           and
           excess
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           
           and
           the
           high
           racking
           of
           Rents
           to
           mainteyn
           it
           ,
           brought
           unto
           those
           that
           have
           taken
           pleasure
           in
           it
           .
           And
           they
           that
           have
           so
           much
           delighted
           in
           it
           ,
           may
           now
           ,
           if
           they
           please
           ,
           or
           at
           one
           time
           or
           another
           ,
           understand
           whether
           they
           will
           or
           no
           ,
           that
           the
           overmuch
           raising
           and
           stretching
           of
           the
           rents
           of
           the
           Lands
           and
           houses
           in
           England
           ,
           since
           an
           excessive
           pride
           and
           folly
           of
           the
           people
           is
           come
           to
           be
           so
           much
           in
           fashion
           amongst
           us
           ,
           have
           been
           no
           gain
           to
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           but
           will
           be
           a
           great
           loss
           and
           damage
           unto
           them
           by
           that
           time
           that
           the
           wastfull
           and
           prodigall
           part
           of
           them
           have
           bought
           and
           furnished
           their
           Houshold
           provisions
           at
           the
           dear
           rates
           of
           their
           Tenants
           and
           others
           ,
           of
           whom
           they
           do
           buy
           them
           ,
           and
           their
           apparel
           and
           other
           the
           Merchandises
           of
           their
           follyes
           of
           the
           Citizens
           and
           Trades-men
           ;
           and
           not
           only
           therein
           bear
           the
           burthen
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           intollerable
           pride
           and
           gallantry
           of
           the
           Citizens
           ,
           Tradesmen
           ,
           Mechanicks
           ,
           Artificers
           and
           their
           Wives
           and
           Children
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           that
           they
           do
           buy
           of
           them
           ,
           do
           contribute
           to
           the
           costly
           Pearl
           ,
           Neck-laces
           ,
           Diamond
           Lockets
           ,
           and
           other
           Jewels
           ,
           satten
           and
           cloth
           of
           silver
           Peticoats
           ,
           plush
           Gowns
           ,
           Embroderies
           ,
           Gold-lace
           ,
           Gorgets
           of
           threescore
           pounds
           a
           piece
           ,
           and
           Lace
           of
           twenty
           or
           forty
           pounds
           a
           yard
           ,
           worn
           by
           the
           Merchants
           ,
           Drapers
           ,
           
           and
           Mercers
           Wives
           ,
           and
           the
           Silk-Gowns
           ,
           Hoods
           ,
           Laces
           ,
           and
           over-costly
           Apparel
           of
           the
           Mechanick
           and
           Artificers
           Wives
           in
           their
           desires
           and
           ambition
           to
           live
           like
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           when
           no
           man
           can
           tell
           they
           are
           any
           ,
           or
           ought
           to
           be
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           enhance
           of
           all
           provisions
           of
           victuals
           brought
           to
           London
           out
           of
           the
           Countries
           ,
           hath
           made
           the
           Country
           people
           pro●der
           then
           they
           should
           be
           ,
           and
           the
           City
           Wares
           and
           Commodities
           dearer
           then
           otherwise
           they
           would
           be
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           Citizens
           ,
           in
           the
           pursuit
           of
           pride
           and
           luxury
           ,
           run
           out
           of
           their
           wits
           and
           estates
           to
           purchase
           it
           .
        
         
           That
           it
           was
           better
           in
           former
           times
           for
           the
           Artificers
           and
           Day-labourers
           ,
           whose
           more
           moderate
           expences
           in
           their
           ●●veral
           conditions
           and
           qualities
           made
           them
           heretof●re
           with
           a
           fourth
           or
           fifth
           part
           of
           what
           they
           do
           now
           earn
           ,
           greater
           gainers
           by
           their
           labours
           then
           now
           they
           are
           ,
           and
           better
           for
           servants
           ,
           whose
           far
           lesser
           wages
           then
           now
           ,
           they
           will
           be
           contented
           with
           ,
           did
           amount
           unto
           more
           ,
           or
           as
           much
           as
           they
           do
           now
           gain
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           their
           former
           smaller
           expences
           in
           clothes
           and
           apparel
           .
        
         
           The
           Tenants
           and
           farmers
           lived
           better
           when
           they
           plowed
           their
           Landlords
           lands
           ,
           mowed
           ,
           reaped
           ,
           and
           helped
           in
           with
           their
           Harvests
           carried
           home
           their
           wood
           ,
           and
           paid
           small
           rents
           ,
           then
           they
           have
           or
           can
           do
           now
           that
           they
           are
           strained
           to
           the
           highest
           ,
           those
           labours
           and
           services
           coming
           far
           short
           (
           if
           they
           were
           at
           the
           now
           rates
           to
           be
           hired
           or
           paid
           for
           )
           of
           the
           addition
           ,
           which
           time
           and
           change
           of
           manners
           and
           customes
           have
           since
           made
           to
           their
           antient
           and
           unimproved
           rents
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           people
           of
           England
           ,
           if
           there
           had
           been
           no
           other
           ground
           or
           reason
           for
           it
           ,
           might
           well
           have
           afforded
           to
           have
           given
           the
           King
           so
           much
           as
           they
           were
           yearly
           charged
           with
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           for
           an
           acquital
           
           of
           more
           then
           twenty
           years
           arrears
           of
           it
           by
           the
           Act
           of
           Oblivion
           .
        
         
           That
           if
           an
           estimate
           could
           be
           made
           of
           those
           Millions
           or
           summes
           of
           money
           sterling
           ,
           which
           the
           en●hanced
           prices
           and
           rates
           of
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           provisions
           did
           amount
           unto
           yearly
           since
           the
           24th
           year
           of
           the
           reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Eighth
           ,
           and
           what
           the
           rise
           of
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           provisions
           have
           come
           unto
           yearly
           since
           the
           Pourveyance
           and
           Compositions
           for
           them
           were
           laid
           down
           ,
           and
           what
           it
           may
           more
           be
           stretched
           unto
           ,
           if
           pride
           and
           price
           ,
           not
           like
           Castor
           and
           Pollux
           ,
           to
           bring
           our
           Ship
           into
           the
           Port
           ,
           but
           to
           ruine
           it
           ,
           should
           go
           on
           in
           that
           carreer
           it
           is
           now
           in
           ,
           and
           private
           and
           particular
           interests
           more
           mighty
           and
           prevalent
           then
           all
           those
           imaginary
           monsters
           which
           Hercules
           is
           sa●●
           to
           have
           subdued
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           greater
           force
           then
           that
           Devil
           and
           his
           heard
           called
           Legion
           ,
           which
           our
           blessed
           Saviour
           did
           dislodge
           out
           of
           the
           man
           possessed
           with
           them
           ,
           shall
           be
           ayders
           and
           abetters
           of
           it
           .
           There
           is
           no
           man
           that
           hath
           not
           bid
           defiance
           to
           his
           reason
           and
           understanding
           ,
           but
           will
           acknowledge
           that
           the
           people
           of
           England
           had
           better
           give
           ten
           times
           or
           more
           the
           yearly
           rate
           or
           value
           of
           the
           Pourveyancees
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           then
           endure
           the
           Impositions
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           ,
           or
           shall
           put
           one
           upon
           another
           whilest
           every
           man
           will
           seek
           to
           save
           himself
           and
           make
           his
           labour
           or
           commodity
           afford
           him
           as
           much
           as
           he
           can
           to
           recompence
           him
           for
           it
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           unreasonable
           rates
           and
           prices
           put
           upon
           all
           the
           Kings
           occasions
           or
           services
           by
           Land
           and
           Sea
           ,
           are
           and
           will
           be
           the
           cause
           of
           Taxations
           and
           Assessements
           in
           times
           of
           peace
           three
           to
           one
           more
           then
           formerly
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           Levies
           of
           monies
           to
           hire
           Souldiers
           ,
           and
           raise
           and
           maintain
           mercinary
           Armies
           ,
           will
           amount
           unto
           and
           charge
           the
           Publick
           ten
           or
           twenty
           to
           one
           or
           more
           than
           
           when
           by
           the
           help
           and
           ready
           ayds
           of
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight
           service
           our
           gallant
           and
           well-armed
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           could
           upon
           any
           occasions
           of
           warre
           or
           distress
           either
           at
           home
           or
           abroad
           be
           sodainly
           summoned
           and
           made
           to
           appear
           from
           Ireland
           as
           well
           as
           from
           all
           parts
           of
           England
           and
           Wales
           .
        
         
           And
           so
           readily
           as
           King
           
             William
             Rufus
          
           sitting
           at
           dinner
           in
           
             Westminster
             Hall
          
           ,
           and
           hearing
           that
           Mayne
           a
           Town
           in
           Normandy
           was
           much
           distressed
           by
           a
           sodain
           Siege
           laid
           unto
           it
           by
           the
           French
           King
           ,
           
           and
           resolving
           in
           the
           greatness
           of
           his
           mind
           not
           to
           turn
           his
           back
           towards
           it
           untill
           he
           had
           relieved
           it
           ,
           could
           cause
           the
           wall
           to
           be
           broken
           down
           on
           the
           South
           side
           ,
           and
           passing
           towards
           the
           sea
           coast
           ,
           command
           his
           Nobility
           and
           Knights
           speedily
           to
           follow
           him
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           unparrallel'd
           pride
           of
           almost
           all
           rancks
           and
           degrees
           of
           the
           people
           not
           permitted
           in
           
             France
             ,
             Spain
          
           and
           other
           Neighbour
           Nations
           brings
           our
           Forreign
           Trade
           almost
           to
           nothing
           by
           the
           adulterating
           of
           our
           Commodities
           ,
           and
           making
           them
           false
           and
           slight
           ,
           and
           causing
           the
           charges
           to
           be
           much
           more
           then
           formerly
           in
           the
           work
           and
           making
           of
           them
           ,
           pay
           of
           our
           Mariners
           and
           greater
           rates
           of
           victualling
           ,
           so
           as
           we
           being
           not
           able
           to
           make
           our
           manufactures
           so
           cheap
           as
           other
           Nations
           ,
           and
           making
           them
           slight
           and
           false
           ,
           our
           Trade
           must
           of
           necessity
           more
           and
           more
           decay
           ,
           and
           will
           never
           increase
           or
           be
           advanced
           ,
           if
           the
           Dutch
           were
           banished
           out
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           or
           ordered
           to
           trade
           only
           in
           the
           Bottom
           of
           the
           sea
           ,
           and
           leave
           all
           the
           Surface
           or
           Top
           unto
           us
           ;
           the
           cheap
           diet
           and
           clothing
           of
           their
           Common
           people
           ,
           the
           neat
           and
           frugall
           diet
           ,
           and
           the
           apparel
           of
           the
           Burgers
           ,
           and
           those
           that
           they
           call
           the
           Gentry
           ,
           giving
           them
           the
           advantage
           of
           under-selling
           us
           .
        
         
           For
           we
           may
           be
           sure
           that
           there
           will
           never
           be
           cheapness
           of
           victualls
           ,
           or
           houshold
           provisions
           ,
           or
           good
           trading
           ,
           and
           
           truly
           called
           plentifull
           living
           ,
           if
           Citizens
           Wives
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           no
           higher
           a
           rank
           then
           Sc●iveners
           ,
           shall
           have
           their
           Trains
           born
           up
           at
           Funeralls
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           were
           Countesses
           ,
           or
           Baronesses
           ,
           and
           give
           the
           world
           to
           understand
           by
           that
           
             Nove●int
             universi
          
           ,
           that
           pride
           hath
           made
           them
           run
           out
           of
           their
           wits
           ,
           and
           may
           in
           a
           short
           time
           ,
           after
           that
           rate
           make
           their
           Husbands
           run
           out
           of
           their
           Estates
           .
           And
           if
           Taylors
           Wives
           may
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           not
           now
           ashamed
           to
           do
           ,
           wear
           Pearl
           Neck-laces
           of
           100
           or
           120l
           .
           price
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           the
           greater
           sort
           of
           that
           now
           too
           overbusied
           Profession
           ,
           keep
           their
           Coaches
           ,
           and
           make
           their
           Customers
           pay
           for
           it
           .
           A
           Linnen
           Draper
           being
           to
           buy
           an
           Horse
           for
           his
           own
           use
           must
           have
           one
           at
           no
           lesse
           a
           price
           then
           forty
           pounds
           :
           the
           Wife
           of
           a
           Sales-man
           ,
           or
           one
           that
           sells
           Petticoats
           ,
           Wastcoats
           ,
           or
           Gowns
           ,
           trimd
           ,
           and
           made
           up
           in
           a
           seeming
           cheap
           ,
           but
           a
           most
           deceitfull
           manner
           ,
           for
           Servants
           ,
           or
           people
           of
           ordinary
           quality
           ,
           can
           wear
           a
           Neck-lace
           of
           forty
           pounds
           price
           :
           And
           some
           Shoemakers
           Wives
           do
           not
           think
           their
           Husbands
           do
           go
           to
           the
           Devil
           fast
           enough
           ,
           if
           they
           do
           not
           so
           abuse
           the
           more
           honest
           intentions
           of
           their
           Trade
           ,
           as
           to
           make
           their
           Wives
           learn
           to
           hold
           up
           their
           heads
           to
           shew
           their
           Pearl
           Neck-laces
           of
           forty
           or
           fifty
           pounds
           price
           ,
           which
           is
           many
           times
           more
           then
           all
           the
           shoes
           in
           some
           of
           their
           Husband
           Shops
           are
           worth
           :
           Every
           Cook
           ,
           every
           Alehousekeeper
           ,
           and
           the
           lowest
           and
           meanest
           sort
           of
           Mechanicke
           and
           Handicrafts
           men
           ,
           and
           their
           Wives
           ,
           shall
           be
           permitted
           to
           vie
           in
           〈◊〉
           Apparel
           ,
           and
           manner
           of
           living
           with
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           :
           A
           Frock-porters
           little
           Daughter
           shall
           go
           with
           her
           breasts
           and
           shoulders
           naked
           ,
           white
           shoes
           ,
           Coif
           and
           Pinner
           well
           laced
           ,
           and
           all
           to
           be
           ribboned
           :
           and
           a
           Day-labourers
           Wife
           in
           the
           Country
           ,
           within
           the
           infectious
           breath
           of
           the
           pride
           of
           London
           ,
           wear
           her
           Taffata
           Hoods
           Gold
           and
           Silver-lace
           ,
           and
           a
           Gorget
           not
           much
           below
           
           the
           yearly
           rent
           of
           the
           little
           Tenement
           her
           Husband
           is
           at
           night
           glad
           to
           rest
           his
           weary
           and
           durtied
           limbs
           in
           :
           and
           that
           there
           will
           be
           never
           any
           hope
           or
           possibility
           of
           any
           thin●
           ▪
           but
           high
           rates
           and
           prices
           ,
           vices
           and
           villanies
           ,
           when
           th●●
           do
           so
           hugely
           ●ise
           and
           ●ncrease
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           pride
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           the
           
             Keeper
             of
             the
             Bo●●om●●ss
             pit
          
           ,
           and
           its
           
             everlasting
             burnings
          
           ,
           may
           well
           rejoyce
           in
           the
           plentifull
           coming
           in
           of
           his
           Harvest
           and
           Merchandise
           ;
           and
           that
           if
           there
           were
           nothing
           of
           wickedness
           to
           be
           found
           in
           the
           heart
           of
           mankind
           ,
           that
           most
           fertill
           Seminary
           and
           seed-plot
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           no
           other
           cause
           for
           it
           ,
           the
           only
           excessive
           pride
           of
           the
           Nation
           would
           by
           a
           necessity
           of
           providing
           maintenance
           for
           it
           ,
           be
           a
           cause
           efficient
           and
           impulsive
           to
           make
           or
           foment
           all
           manner
           of
           wickedness
           ,
           fraud
           ,
           cheating
           and
           cozenidg
           ,
           drive
           the
           Wives
           and
           Husbands
           to
           betray
           one
           another
           ,
           Servants
           their
           Masters
           ,
           Children
           their
           Parents
           ,
           Parents
           their
           Children
           ,
           and
           Brothers
           and
           Sisters
           to
           forego
           all
           naturall
           affection
           ,
           care
           and
           honesty
           one
           towards
           another
           .
        
         
           That
           it
           is
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           impossible
           by
           any
           Trade
           or
           Industry
           to
           mainteyn
           this
           Nation
           in
           either
           peace
           or
           plenty
           ,
           when
           all
           the
           men
           in
           it
           shall
           in
           their
           Apparel
           ,
           Dyet
           and
           Expences
           make
           it
           their
           business
           to
           live
           as
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           do
           &
           most
           of
           the
           female
           Sex
           (
           Servants
           not
           excepted
           )
           shall
           not
           be
           contented
           themselves
           ,
           or
           let
           their
           Husbands
           live
           in
           any
           quiet
           ,
           unless
           they
           may
           live
           like
           Ladies
           and
           Gentlewomen
           ,
           and
           be
           the
           Daughters
           of
           vanity
           and
           folly
           .
        
         
           That
           at
           Paphus
           and
           Ciprus
           the
           old
           and
           antient
           Countries
           of
           venery
           as
           well
           as
           vanity
           ,
           where
           their
           Daughters
           do
           ,
           (
           as
           some
           Authors
           have
           written
           ,
           and
           Travellers
           do
           report
           )
           entertain
           strangers
           by
           prostitution
           of
           their
           bodies
           ,
           to
           get
           Dowries
           or
           Portions
           for
           some
           mad
           Husbands
           to
           marry
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           all
           the
           Luxuries
           and
           pride
           of
           
             Rome
             ,
             Asia
             ,
             
             Tire
          
           and
           Sidon
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           the
           destroyed
           and
           ruined
           Nations
           by
           it
           ,
           there
           were
           some
           distinctions
           in
           Apparel
           ,
           Dyet
           ,
           and
           Expences
           ;
           some
           Servants
           distinguished
           by
           their
           Habit
           ,
           and
           not
           all
           Masters
           or
           Mistresses
           to
           be
           found
           amongst
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           England
           being
           overchaged
           with
           a
           Generation
           of
           too
           many
           Proud
           ,
           Lazi●
           ,
           and
           Lavish
           People
           ,
           is
           not
           ▪
           nor
           ever
           will
           be
           able
           to
           maintain
           them
           without
           a
           sinfull
           necessity
           put
           upon
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           there
           is
           too
           much
           already
           ,
           to
           cheat
           and
           oppress
           one
           another
           to
           support
           them
           in
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           should
           have
           more
           reason
           to
           believe
           then
           to
           doubt
           ,
           that
           the
           honor
           of
           a
           Prince
           is
           the
           honor
           of
           a
           People
           ,
           and
           the
           people
           so
           much
           concerned
           in
           it
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           wont
           to
           be
           a
           
             cura
             curarum
          
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           greatest
           cares
           of
           the
           Magistrates
           under
           Kings
           and
           Soveraign
           Princes
           
             seculis
             retroactis
          
           in
           the
           old
           and
           long
           ago
           past
           ages
           of
           the
           word
           attested
           by
           the
           hoary
           heads
           of
           time
           &
           antiquity
           practised
           by
           a
           
             Jus
             Gentium
          
           ,
           universal
           Law
           of
           Nations
           ,
           rude
           and
           untaught
           Indians
           not
           excepted
           ,
           and
           continued
           to
           this
           day
           in
           many
           forreign
           parts
           ,
           and
           most
           of
           the
           Western
           Nations
           ,
           to
           give
           an
           especiall
           honor
           by
           gifts
           ,
           enterteynments
           ,
           and
           presents
           to
           Embassdours
           ,
           who
           in
           those
           particular
           employments
           were
           but
           the
           images
           and
           representations
           of
           foreign
           Princes
           sent
           on
           Embasses
           unto
           theirs
           :
           And
           that
           we
           ought
           to
           take
           it
           to
           be
           a
           duty
           incumbent
           upon
           us
           not
           to
           want
           ,
           or
           be
           to
           seek
           for
           as
           much
           goodness
           as
           the
           old
           Heathen
           Persians
           were
           Masters
           of
           when
           Artabanus
           told
           Themistocles
           the
           Graecian
           Embassadour
           that
           
             apud
             nos
             ea
             Lex
             praestantissima
             qua●
             venerati
             Regem
             tanquàm
             Dei
             effigiem
             jubet
             ,
          
           with
           us
           ▪
           that
           Law
           which
           commandeth
           reverence
           to
           the
           King
           as
           Gods
           Image
           ,
           is
           accompted
           to
           be
           the
           most
           excellent
           .
        
         
           And
           therefore
           untill
           the
           wisdome
           of
           our
           Parliaments
           shall
           by
           some
           sumptuary
           Laws
           to
           be
           enacted
           ,
           which
           may
           
           as
           easily
           be
           done
           ,
           and
           put
           in
           execution
           ,
           without
           any
           damage
           or
           loss
           unto
           Trade
           ,
           or
           his
           Majesties
           Customes
           ,
           a●
           those
           that
           were
           made
           and
           enacted
           in
           the
           Reigns
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Third
           ,
           Henry
           the
           Eighth
           ,
           and
           Queen
           Mary
           ,
           unhappily
           repeald
           by
           King
           James
           ,
           or
           those
           not
           long
           ago
           made
           and
           kept
           alive
           by
           our
           Neighbours
           of
           France
           and
           Spain
           ,
           or
           lately
           ordained
           by
           the
           sage
           Venetians
           :
           Or
           by
           the
           Swedes
           ,
           those
           strangers
           to
           the
           Sun
           ,
           and
           Inmates
           of
           Snow
           and
           Ice
           ,
           after
           they
           were
           grown
           rich
           and
           proud
           by
           the
           spoil
           and
           plunder
           of
           the
           unfortunate
           Germany
           ,
           and
           a
           way
           may
           be
           found
           out
           to
           drive
           back
           ,
           and
           reduce
           unto
           some
           Order
           ,
           as
           formerly
           the
           unchristian
           liberty
           of
           pride
           now
           in
           fashion
           amongst
           us
           ,
           which
           is
           so
           horrid
           and
           ridiculous
           as
           might
           turn
           the
           weeping
           and
           laughing
           Philosophers
           out
           of
           their
           humours
           ,
           and
           make
           Heraclitus
           laugh
           ,
           and
           Democritus
           weep
           ;
           together
           with
           the
           daily
           more
           and
           more
           growing
           and
           encreaeasing
           high
           rates
           of
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           provisions
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           the
           sad
           consequence
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           is
           so
           fixt
           &
           pertinacious
           ,
           as
           that
           the
           Kings
           own
           example
           of
           plain
           and
           uncostly
           Apparel
           ,
           the
           care
           of
           the
           Church
           and
           Pulpits
           ,
           the
           scourging
           &
           detestation
           of
           vice
           appearing
           in
           some
           of
           our
           Plays
           and
           Interludes
           ,
           and
           the
           jeers
           and
           scoffs
           of
           some
           people
           as
           they
           meet
           with
           it
           in
           the
           streets
           ,
           have
           not
           yet
           been
           able
           to
           bring
           or
           perswade
           too
           many
           of
           them
           into
           their
           wits
           again
           ,
           the
           compass
           of
           their
           estates
           ,
           and
           sobriety
           of
           their
           forefathers
           .
           We
           may
           wish
           and
           pray
           that
           all
           the
           Common
           people
           were
           in
           the
           moderation
           of
           their
           Apparel
           ,
           Quakers
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           called
           ;
           that
           all
           our
           Market-folk
           ,
           Tradesmen
           ,
           Artificers
           ,
           and
           Servants
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           justness
           of
           their
           dealings
           ,
           and
           buying
           and
           selling
           ,
           were
           Quakers
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           may
           not
           be
           our
           sad
           ,
           and
           never
           enough
           to
           be
           lamented
           experience
           ;
           that
           as
           Doctor
           
             Peter
             Heylin
          
           well
           observed
           ,
           
           the
           afflictions
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           in
           the
           Martirdomes
           
           and
           Persecutions
           of
           the
           Protestants
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Mary
           ,
           and
           the
           restoring
           afterward
           of
           many
           Godly
           Divines
           that
           fle●
           from
           it
           ,
           brought
           〈…〉
           the
           Genevian
           Schismes
           and
           Discipline
           〈…〉
           since
           almost
           undone
           and
           〈…〉
           which
           were
           heretofore
           purp●s●ly
           ●own
           and
           cherished
           to
           enervate
           and
           destroy
           ●ona●chy
           joyned
           with
           th●●ll
           Manners
           and
           Customes
           of
           some
           Neighbour
           Nations
           ,
           may
           not
           likewise
           by
           some
           that
           might
           be
           better
           Englishmen
           ,
           and
           his
           Majesties
           better
           subjects
           ▪
           be
           more
           then
           should
           be
           endeavoured
           to
           be
           planted
           amongst
           us
           which
           being
           abundantly
           and
           sufficiently
           tri●d
           to
           be
           evill
           ,
           did
           never
           ,
           nor
           will
           ever
           attain
           unto
           the
           reason
           ,
           right
           use
           goodness
           and
           perfection
           of
           our
           good
           old
           English
           Customes
           ,
           amongst
           which
           is
           ,
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           more
           especially
           ranked
           the
           honor
           and
           support
           of
           the
           Royall
           Court
           of
           England
           ,
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           honor
           of
           our
           King
           and
           Soveraign
           :
           Which
           the
           Romans
           ,
           who
           would
           not
           endure
           any
           Common-wealth
           ,
           Competitors
           ,
           nor
           think
           themselves
           to
           be
           in
           any
           condition
           of
           safety
           untill
           they
           had
           ruined
           and
           destroyed
           Carthage
           ,
           and
           those
           Commonwealths
           of
           
             Achaia
             ,
             Athens
          
           ,
           and
           Sparta
           ,
           were
           so
           unwilling
           in
           the
           height
           of
           their
           glory
           ,
           their
           Senate
           ,
           Magistrates
           &
           Republick
           should
           want
           ,
           as
           the
           Comminalty
           of
           Rome
           did
           in
           a
           popular
           Election
           ,
           deny
           to
           make
           
             Elius
             Tubero
          
           ,
           a
           most
           upright
           and
           just
           man
           ,
           the
           Nephew
           of
           
             L.
             Paulus
          
           ,
           and
           Sisters
           Sonne
           of
           the
           great
           and
           famous
           
             Scipio
             Africanus
          
           ,
           
           to
           be
           a
           Prat●r
           or
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           ,
           for
           that
           he
           being
           imployed
           by
           
             Fabius
             Maximus
          
           publicquely
           to
           feast
           or
           entertain
           in
           the
           name
           and
           at
           the
           charge
           of
           the
           people
           of
           Rome
           ,
           his
           Uncle
           
             Scipio
             Africanus
          
           in
           the
           preparing
           and
           making
           ready
           the
           Triclinia
           ,
           or
           Tables
           
             lectulos
             punicanos
             pellibus
             ●aedinis
             straverat
          
           ,
           had
           covered
           the
           Carthaginian
           Beds
           whereon
           the
           Guests
           were
           to
           sit
           or
           lye
           ,
           with
           Goat-skins
           ;
           
             &
             pro
             Argenteis
             vasis
             
             samia
             exposuerat
             ,
          
           and
           instead
           of
           silver
           Vessels
           made
           use
           of
           Earthen
           ;
           which
           due
           observance
           of
           a
           Heathen
           Republique
           ,
           being
           under
           no
           obligation
           of
           any
           Divine
           Praecepts
           or
           Examples
           to
           honour
           their
           Governours
           or
           Assembly
           of
           wise
           men
           ,
           may
           teach
           us
           that
           are
           Christians
           how
           very
           necessary
           it
           will
           be
           to
           take
           more
           care
           of
           the
           Honour
           of
           our
           Prince
           ,
           then
           of
           any
           our
           own
           estimations
           or
           honors
           ,
           which
           for
           a
           great
           part
           of
           them
           are
           ,
           or
           have
           been
           derived
           from
           him
           or
           his
           most
           noble
           Ancestors
           :
           and
           by
           so
           much
           the
           more
           for
           that
           the
           honor
           to
           be
           done
           unto
           him
           is
           every
           where
           to
           be
           found
           commanded
           ,
           directed
           ,
           exampled
           ,
           and
           encouraged
           in
           and
           by
           those
           sacred
           Registers
           ,
           the
           holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           which
           are
           to
           conduct
           us
           through
           the
           
             Red
             Sea
          
           of
           the
           miseries
           and
           troubles
           of
           this
           life
           to
           that
           of
           a
           blessed
           and
           everlastingly
           happy
           in
           the
           heavenly
           Jerusalem
           ,
           in
           the
           way
           whereunto
           will
           be
           no
           small
           helpers
           and
           assistants
           ,
           the
           rendring
           to
           Caesar
           all
           his
           dues
           and
           rights
           ,
           who
           is
           the
           protector
           of
           ours
           ,
           a
           more
           exact
           and
           carefull
           observance
           of
           Religion
           ,
           Laws
           of
           nature
           and
           Nations
           ,
           right
           ,
           reason
           ,
           our
           Oathes
           of
           Allegiance
           and
           Supremacy
           ,
           and
           the
           love
           and
           honour
           of
           our
           King
           and
           Country
           ,
           the
           n●w
           almost
           forsaken
           virtues
           of
           our
           Ancestors
           ,
           and
           the
           good
           old
           Customes
           of
           England
           ,
           which
           should
           not
           like
           some
           rustie
           pieces
           of
           old
           neglected
           Arms
           be
           hung
           up
           in
           our
           Halls
           ,
           and
           now
           and
           then
           only
           talked
           of
           ;
           or
           like
           as
           if
           they
           were
           some
           race
           of
           Wolves
           come
           again
           to
           inf●st
           us
           ,
           or
           our
           profits
           ,
           be
           hunted
           and
           persecuted
           ,
           but
           recalled
           ,
           revived
           ,
           and
           practised
           ;
           In
           which
           ,
           as
           a
           
             fidus
             Achat●s
          
           ,
           shall
           never
           be
           wanting
           the
           wel-wishes
           and
           endeavors
           of
        
         
           
             FABIAN
             PHILIPPS
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           BY
           the
           Laws
           and
           Custome
           of
           England
           as
           well
           as
           of
           other
           Nations
           where
           Monarchy
           ,
           or
           the
           right
           way
           and
           order
           of
           Government
           hath
           any
           thing
           to
           do
           ,
           the
           King
           hath
           a
           Controll
           of
           Markets
           ,
           may
           regulate
           &
           order
           the
           price
           &
           rates
           of
           victuals
           &
           houshold
           provisions
           ,
           and
           hinder
           it
           from
           being
           excessive
           :
           As
           likewise
           may
           the
           Lords
           of
           Manors
           in
           their
           Leets
           ,
           the
           Sheriffs
           in
           their
           Tournes
           ,
           the
           Justices
           of
           the
           Kings
           Bench
           ,
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           ,
           and
           Justices
           of
           Assize
           at
           the
           Quarter-Sessions
           and
           Assizes
           by
           an
           authority
           derived
           from
           him
           .
        
         
           Which
           when
           it
           was
           better
           observed
           then
           now
           ,
           made
           the
           Market
           Rates
           about
           the
           fourth
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           to
           be
           ,
           if
           any
           thing
           at
           all
           ,
           but
           little
           different
           from
           her
           price
           ,
           or
           those
           Compositions
           for
           her
           houshold
           Provisions
           ,
           which
           by
           agreement
           made
           by
           the
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           of
           the
           severall
           Counties
           ,
           with
           the
           Offficers
           of
           her
           house
           were
           to
           be
           furnished
           according
           as
           the
           Counties
           were
           more
           or
           less
           distant
           from
           London
           ,
           the
           place
           of
           her
           Residence
           ,
           and
           the
           profits
           which
           they
           received
           thereby
           in
           the
           improvement
           of
           their
           Lands
           ,
           and
           selling
           their
           Commodities
           at
           greater
           rates
           unto
           others
           .
        
         
           And
           was
           the
           cause
           ,
           besides
           the
           duty
           and
           obligation
           of
           it
           ,
           that
           the
           Kings
           Praeemption
           which
           should
           not
           be
           denyed
           ,
           as
           long
           as
           civility
           and
           good
           manners
           ,
           and
           the
           Fifth
           Commandement
           shall
           continue
           or
           be
           in
           use
           amongst
           us
           .
        
         
         
           And
           the
           Royall
           Pourveyance
           ,
           (
           warranted
           by
           the
           Lawes
           of
           God
           ,
           Nature
           ,
           and
           Nations
           ,
           aswell
           as
           by
           the
           Civil
           Law
           ,
           the
           universal
           and
           refined
           reason
           of
           the
           civilized
           part
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           and
           the
           Common
           Law
           of
           this
           Nation
           :
           )
           having
           dwelt
           here
           amongst
           us
           above
           the
           age
           of
           Methusaelah
           :
           and
           as
           Retributions
           and
           Gratitudes
           in
           signe
           of
           subjection
           ,
           paid
           and
           allowed
           in
           other
           Nations
           by
           the
           Heathen
           and
           Savages
           as
           well
           as
           Christians
           ,
           were
           not
           in
           the
           right
           use
           of
           them
           ,
           untill
           our
           late
           Times
           of
           Rebellion
           and
           Confusion
           taken
           to
           be
           either
           a
           grievance
           or
           burden
           unto
           the
           people
           .
        
         
           For
           that
           which
           (
           besides
           the
           designes
           of
           the
           Levelling
           Party
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           were
           the
           professed
           Enemies
           of
           Monarchy
           and
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           the
           ill
           Impressions
           which
           they
           have
           cast
           into
           the
           minds
           of
           such
           who
           have
           too
           much
           believed
           them
           ,
           )
           hath
           made
           them
           to
           seem
           that
           which
           they
           are
           not
           .
           Hath
           been
           the
           Rack
           and
           Enhaunce
           of
           the
           Rents
           of
           Lands
           by
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           Landlords
           .
        
         
           The
           increase
           of
           Servants
           and
           Labourers
           wages
           ,
           and
           the
           high
           rates
           imposed
           by
           Tenants
           and
           Farmers
           upon
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           Provisions
           which
           (
           if
           it
           were
           not
           for
           the
           pursuit
           of
           pride
           and
           vanity
           ,
           and
           the
           peoples
           racking
           of
           one
           another
           to
           maintain
           it
           ,
           )
           might
           be
           afforded
           cheaper
           then
           it
           was
           in
           the
           4
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           .
           And
           as
           they
           are
           now
           raised
           to
           immoderate
           rates
           and
           prices
           do
           make
           a
           Desert
           in
           our
           Land
           of
           Canaan
           ,
           and
           a
           generall
           Enhaunce
           of
           all
           things
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           a
           plenty
           ;
           wherein
           every
           one
           is
           sure
           to
           be
           a
           gainer
           or
           saver
           ,
           but
           the
           King.
           
        
         
           Who
           by
           the
           loss
           of
           his
           Praeemption
           and
           Pourveyance
           is
           made
           to
           be
           the
           only
           Sufferer
           ,
           and
           as
           to
           the
           Market
           rates
           in
           a
           worse
           condition
           then
           any
           Lord
           of
           a
           Manor
           or
           Clark
           of
           the
           Market
           .
        
         
         
           To
           his
           damage
           ,
           besides
           the
           Loss
           of
           hono●
           in
           his
           house
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           inconveniencies
           of
           more
           then
           one
           hundred
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           .
        
         
           Which
           may
           appear
           by
           a
           true
           and
           exact
           Calculation
           or
           Estimate
           following
           .
        
         
           In
           35
           o.
           Eliz.
           the
           difference
           between
           the
           Market
           and
           the
           Queens
           Rates
           in
           the
           Composition
           made
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           ,
           (
           the
           Spices
           ,
           and
           Grocery-ware
           ,
           excepted
           which
           doth
           now
           yearly
           cost
           the
           King
           three
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           )
           was
           but
           
             Twenty
             five
             thousand
             ,
             Twelve
             pounds
             four
             shillings
             eight
             p●nce
             .
          
        
         
           When
           the
           price
           of
           the
           Oxen
           as
           they
           a●e
           now
           bought
           ,
           is
           three
           to
           one
           ,
           more
           than
           they
           were
           then
           ,
           of
           the
           Lambs
           eleaven
           to
           one
           ,
           Fat
           Sheep
           four
           to
           one
           ,
           Chickens
           eleaven
           to
           one
           ,
           Wheat
           five
           to
           one
           .
        
         
           In
           Yorkshire
           and
           some
           other
           remote
           Countreys
           ,
           the
           price
           of
           the
           Oxen
           near
           four
           to
           one
           ,
           and
           in
           Suffolk
           ,
           and
           other
           Southern
           Countries
           ,
           course
           Butter
           then
           at
           something
           less
           then
           two
           pence
           half-penny
           a
           pound
           ,
           now
           six
           pence
           a
           pound
           .
        
         
           Which
           difference
           betwixt
           the
           Kings
           price
           and
           the
           Market
           price
           but
           according
           to
           three
           to
           one
           ,
           will
           after
           the
           Rate
           of
           Twenty
           five
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           multiplyed
           three
           times
           over
           ;
           Amount
           unto
           one
           hundred
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           and
           make
           the
           Kings
           loss
           to
           be
           as
           much
           ,
           and
           the
           Counties
           (
           especially
           many
           of
           them
           which
           are
           neer
           adjacent
           to
           London
           )
           so
           much
           and
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           ,
           the
           gainers
           by
           selling
           to
           their
           fellow-Subjects
           after
           those
           more
           then
           formerly
           enhaunced
           Rates
           .
        
         
           And
           what
           wanted
           in
           those
           Provisions
           or
           Compositions
           served
           in
           by
           the
           Counties
           (
           for
           that
           did
           not
           reach
           
           to
           the
           defraying
           of
           all
           the
           Charges
           in
           the
           house
           ,
           )
           as
           to
           Dyet
           ,
           and
           Servants
           Wages
           ,
           and
           the
           buying
           of
           some
           Utensils
           and
           necessary
           Houshold-stuffe
           to
           be
           used
           in
           the
           affairs
           of
           the
           Houshold
           .
        
         
           Being
           supplyed
           by
           some
           yearly
           Assignations
           and
           Additions
           out
           of
           the
           Royal
           Revenue
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           by
           several
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           :
           And
           King
           Charles
           the
           Martyr
           ,
           after
           a
           putting
           down
           of
           more
           then
           a
           third
           part
           of
           the
           Tables
           and
           Dyets
           in
           the
           Royal
           houshold
           ,
           as
           they
           were
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           his
           Father
           ,
           and
           putting
           many
           of
           the
           servants
           unto
           Board-wages
           ,
           with
           some
           short
           and
           prejudicial
           allowances
           for
           their
           Dyets
           (
           ●hich
           lessened
           his
           charge
           as
           to
           the
           Dyets
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           
             Thirty
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           and
           was
           the
           cause
           of
           as
           much
           losse
           to
           the
           servants
           )
           making
           his
           Assignation
           ,
           together
           with
           what
           the
           Compositions
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           ,
           did
           then
           amount
           unto
           (
           which
           in
           the
           difference
           betwixt
           the
           Kings
           price
           and
           Market
           rates
           ,
           at
           that
           time
           was
           estimated
           to
           be
           less
           then
           fifty
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           )
           to
           be
           one
           hundred
           and
           twenty
           thousand
           pounds
           for
           the
           defraying
           of
           the
           charges
           of
           his
           House-keeping
           .
        
         
           In
           which
           yearly
           charge
           of
           the
           Houshold
           ,
           the
           King
           allowing
           seventy
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           towards
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           benefits
           by
           the
           compositions
           for
           the
           pourveyance
           ,
           as
           to
           what
           the
           Countries
           paid
           ,
           (
           and
           as
           to
           what
           the
           King
           saved
           by
           it
           ,
           )
           being
           reckoned
           but
           at
           Fifty
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           which
           is
           much
           too
           low
           .
        
         
           There
           will
           by
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           the
           Prae-emption
           and
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           be
           not
           only
           that
           Fifty
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           in
           damage
           and
           loss
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           but
           a
           great
           Addition
           of
           losses
           ,
           and
           damage
           ,
           as
           followeth
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           
           
             For
             the
             Carriages
             now
             ,
             that
             the
             price
             is
             raised
             two
             in
             three
             and
             more
             then
             formerly
             incumbred
             .
             
               per
               ann
            
             .
             -
          
           
             3000
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
           
             And
             when
             there
             shall
             be
             Progresses
             ,
             will
             at
             the
             least
             amount
             unto
             two
             thousand
             pound
             
               per
               ann
            
             .
             more
             -
          
           
             2000
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
           
             The
             Venditions
             ,
             which
             were
             the
             over-plus
             ,
             and
             what
             was
             not
             spent
             or
             used
             of
             the
             Provisions
             of
             the
             Countyes
             ;
             with
             the
             profit
             of
             Hydes
             ,
             and
             Tallow
             ,
             &c.
             &
             were
             usually
             sold
             towards
             the
             furnishing
             of
             other
             occasions
             of
             the
             house
             ;
             as
             for
             buying
             of
             Linnen
             ,
             and
             other
             Necessaryes
             and
             Utensils
             thereof
             
               per
               ann
            
             .
             —
          
           
             12000
             l.
             -0
             s.
             -0
             d.
             
          
           
             The
             profit
             and
             benefit
             of
             lean
             Cattle
             ,
             served
             in
             at
             small
             prizes
             ,
             and
             heretofore
             Fatted
             in
             the
             Kings
             Pastures
             at
             Creslow
             in
             Buckinghamshire
             ;
             the
             Rent
             deducted
             .
             
               per
               ann
            
             .
             —
          
           
             1000
             l.
             -0
             s.
             -0
             d.
             
          
           
             And
             was
             wont
             besides
             to
             furnish
             for
             the
             Stables
             as
             much
             Hay
             as
             was
             worth
             .
             
               per
               ann
            
             .
             —
          
           
             300
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             -0
             d.
             
          
           
             And
             as
             many
             fatt
             Cattle
             sold
             as
             yearly
             yielded
             .
             —
          
           
             1000
             l.
             -0
             s.
             -0
             d.
             
          
           
             The
             Kings
             Pastures
             and
             Fatting
             grounds
             at
             Tottenham-Court
             in
             Middlesex
             ,
             and
             Sayes-Court
             in
             Deptford
             in
             Kent
             ,
             yielding
             for
             the
             aforesaid
             uses
             more
             then
             the
             now
             Rent
             which
             is
             reserved
             upon
             them
             .
             
               per
               ann
            
             .
             —
          
           
             500
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             -0
             d.
             
          
           
             
             Allowances
             in
             satisfaction
             of
             Diet
             now
             made
             unto
             eight
             great
             Officers
             or
             principal
             Men
             of
             the
             houshold
             for
             their
             Tables
             and
             Diet
             after
             the
             rate
             of
             four
             pounds
             
               per
               diem
            
             .
             being
             1560
             l.
             to
             every
             one
             of
             them
             ,
             and
             the
             Moyety
             or
             one
             half
             thereof
             reckoned
             at
             730
             l.
             and
             multiplyed
             by
             eight
             ,
             amounting
             unto
             
               per
               annum
            
             .
             —
          
           
             5800
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
           
             Allowances
             made
             unto
             7
             next
             principal
             Officers
             of
             the
             house
             in
             recompence
             of
             their
             Diet
             and
             Tables
             after
             the
             rate
             of
             30
             
               s.
               per
               diem
            
             to
             each
             of
             them
             being
             547
             l.
             10
             s.
             0
             d.
             and
             but
             the
             Moyety
             or
             one
             halfe
             thereof
             brought
             to
             accompt
             ,
             which
             is
             —
             273
             l.
             15
             s.
             0
             d.
             and
             multiplyed
             by
             7.
             amounts
             unto
             
               per
               annum
            
             .
             —
          
           
             1915
             l.
             —
             5
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
        
         
           (
           Besides
           many
           other
           allowances
           unto
           divers
           others
           of
           the
           houshold
           who
           had
           formerly
           three
           dishes
           of
           meat
           allowed
           them
           every
           day
           in
           the
           year
           not
           here
           reckoned
           .
           )
        
         
           
             For
             Board
             wages
             to
             many
             other
             Officers
             and
             Servants
             in
             the
             Royal
             Family
             ,
             whose
             wages
             when
             there
             was
             Diet
             in
             the
             Court
             to
             suffice
             all
             the
             Servants
             of
             it
             ▪
             and
             reteyners
             unto
             it
             ;
             will
             fall
             farre
             short
             of
             what
             they
             will
             have
             a
             necessity
             aswell
             as
             reason
             to
             demand
             .
             
               per
               annum
            
             .
             —
          
           
             6000
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
           
             
             The
             Compositions
             of
             the
             Brewers
             of
             London
             and
             the
             adjacent
             Villages
             ,
             in
             lieu
             of
             a
             groat
             for
             every
             quarter
             of
             Malt
             which
             they
             brewed
             ,
             which
             was
             formerly
             paid
             ,
             and
             is
             now
             remitted
             by
             reason
             of
             the
             Excise
             .
             
               per
               annum
            
             .
             —
          
           
             3500
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
           
             The
             Excise
             which
             the
             King
             pays
             for
             his
             own
             Beer
             
               per
               ann
            
             .
             —
          
           
             300
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
           
             The
             2
             d.
             a
             piece
             every
             day
             to
             as
             many
             poor
             people
             at
             the
             Gate
             ,
             now
             given
             more
             then
             formerly
             ,
             by
             reason
             of
             the
             fragments
             of
             the
             Tables
             ,
             put
             down
             ,
             and
             other
             Charities
             heretofore
             allowed
             them
             taken
             away
             
               per
               annum
            
             .
             —
          
           
             140
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
        
         
           The
           future
           and
           continual
           enhance
           of
           prices
           assisted
           by
           that
           accursed
           way
           of
           poundage
           of
           
             Twelve
             pence
          
           in
           every
           pound
           for
           all
           that
           he
           buyes
           or
           payes
           for
           ;
           which
           he
           will
           be
           sure
           to
           pay
           for
           at
           the
           last
           ,
           though
           others
           are
           constrained
           to
           abate
           and
           pay
           for
           it
           at
           the
           present
           .
        
         
           And
           his
           too
           often
           buying
           upon
           credit
           and
           paying
           for
           many
           things
           as
           much
           as
           an
           interest
           of
           15
           or
           20
           
             per
             cent
          
           .
        
         
           
             Which
             put
             together
             may
             in
             the
             usual
             &
             annual
             expences
             of
             his
             houshold
             instead
             of
             the
             50000
             l.
             (
             if
             so
             much
             )
             were
             contributed
             by
             the
             pourveyance
             ,
             amount
             unto
             little
             less
             then
             a
             half
             more
             then
             formerly
             
             laid
             out
             in
             most
             parts
             of
             his
             provision
             ,
             and
             a
             th●●d
             part
             in
             the
             residue
             ,
             he
             being
             now
             enforced
             to
             purchase
             the
             victuals
             and
             food
             for
             Himself
             and
             his
             houshold
             ,
             at
             a
             far
             greater
             rate
             then
             any
             of
             his
             Subjects
             .
             —
          
           
             20000
             l.
             —
             0
             s.
             —
             0
             d.
             
          
        
         
           Besides
           what
           may
           be
           added
           ,
           for
           the
           tricks
           &
           pilferings
           of
           inferiour
           Servants
           of
           the
           houshold
           ,
           and
           their
           taking
           indirect
           courses
           ,
           and
           advantages
           to
           make
           up
           ,
           or
           recruit
           their
           Losses
           and
           the
           damage
           which
           the
           King
           may
           susteyn
           by
           having
           such
           his
           servants
           Metamorphosed
           and
           turned
           into
           hunger-starved
           Ratts
           ,
           which
           will
           be
           nibling
           and
           gnawing
           at
           every
           thing
           which
           they
           can
           come
           at
           ;
           and
           may
           be
           catched
           ,
           but
           are
           not
           to
           be
           destroyed
           by
           drowning
           or
           poisoning
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           loss
           and
           diminution
           of
           the
           Honour
           of
           the
           King
           in
           his
           Royal
           Houshold
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           inestimable
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           beyond
           a
           valuation
           .
        
         
           As
           the
           Honor
           of
           a
           Sovereign
           Prince
           ,
           is
           ,
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           above
           ,
           and
           beyond
           that
           of
           the
           vulgar
           ,
           or
           any
           private
           person
           ,
        
         
           Which
           may
           bring
           us
           to
           this
           conclusion
        
         
           That
           although
           
             Fifty
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           were
           in
           the
           granting
           of
           a
           Moyety
           of
           the
           Excise
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           his
           Heirs
           or
           Successors
           intended
           to
           be
           allowed
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           which
           did
           cost
           the
           Kingdome
           yearly
           ,
           and
           
             Communibus
             Annis
          
           ,
           but
           
             Twenty
             five
             thousand
             and
             twelve
             pounds
             ,
          
           or
           thereabout
           ,
           in
           the
           35
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           third
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           not
           much
           above
           
             Forty
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           
           Reign
           of
           King
           
             Charles
             the
             Martyr
          
           ,
           at
           the
           most
           but
           fifty
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ;
           〈◊〉
           whether
           more
           or
           less
           ,
           is
           not
           to
           be
           found
           in
           the
           Receipt
           or
           yearly
           Income
           of
           that
           Revenue
           of
           the
           moyty
           of
           the
           Excise
           .
        
         
           For
           that
           the
           totall
           of
           the
           clear
           yearly
           profit
           of
           the
           moyety
           of
           the
           Excise
           ,
           allowed
           unto
           the
           King
           for
           the
           Exchange
           of
           his
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           ,
           and
           by
           Knights
           service
           ,
           and
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           doth
           not
           amount
           unto
           (
           the
           charges
           of
           the
           Collection
           deducted
           )
           above
           
             One
             hundred
          
           and
           
             twenty
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           .
        
         
           Is
           likely
           to
           be
           lesse
           by
           reason
           of
           an
           universall
           poverty
           of
           those
           which
           should
           pay
           it
           ,
           making
           a
           large
           accompt
           of
           many
           desperate
           Arrears
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Farmers
           in
           many
           places
           letting
           it
           three
           or
           four
           times
           over
           to
           others
           under
           them
           ,
           and
           so
           very
           much
           racking
           and
           oppressing
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           (
           if
           but
           half
           of
           what
           is
           complained
           of
           be
           true
           )
           as
           many
           private
           Families
           do
           to
           avoid
           the
           gripes
           of
           the
           Excise-men
           ,
           and
           the
           knavery
           of
           the
           Common
           Brewers
           ,
           set
           up
           Brewhouses
           for
           their
           own
           occasions
           .
        
         
           And
           will
           be
           too
           little
           for
           the
           exchange
           or
           purchase
           only
           of
           such
           a
           principall
           flower
           and
           support
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           an
           eminent
           part
           of
           the
           Royall
           Prerogative
           ,
           as
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           Knight-service
           are
           ,
           which
           in
           yearly
           revenue
           yielded
           him
           above
           
             One
             hundred
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           .
        
         
           And
           for
           that
           the
           Power
           ,
           Might
           ,
           and
           Majesty
           of
           a
           King
           being
           unvaluable
           ,
           is
           not
           to
           be
           ballanced
           by
           any
           thing
           which
           is
           not
           as
           much
           .
        
         
           So
           as
           the
           damages
           and
           losses
           susteyned
           by
           the
           want
           of
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           besides
           what
           shall
           be
           paid
           more
           then
           formerly
           for
           the
           charges
           
           of
           the
           Stable
           ,
           impressing
           of
           Workmen
           for
           the
           Kings
           occasions
           by
           the
           Master●
           of
           the
           Works
           ,
           the
           King
           now
           paying
           every
           Workman
           
             eighteen
             pence
          
           ,
           or
           
             two
             shillings
             per
             diem
          
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           before
           but
           twelve
           pence
           ,
           and
           the
           charges
           more
           then
           formerly
           in
           the
           Pourveyance
           for
           the
           Navy
           ,
           Ship-Timber
           ,
           Ammunition
           ,
           and
           carriage
           thereof
           ,
           &c.
           and
           many
           other
           losses
           not
           here
           enumerated
           ,
           will
           be
           no
           less
           then
           the
           sum
           of
           
             One
             hundred
             seven
             thousand
             and
             fifteen
             pounds
             five
             shillings
             .
          
        
         
           And
           a
           too
           certain
           Totall
           of
           that
           which
           is
           here
           valued
           and
           brought
           to
           accompt
           ,
           besides
           the
           unvaluable
           honour
           and
           power
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           loss
           and
           ruine
           of
           his
           Servants
           ,
           and
           what
           indirect
           courses
           may
           intice
           them
           unto
           .
        
         
           Which
           needs
           not
           be
           doubted
           ,
           when
           as
           by
           an
           exact
           and
           carefull
           accompt
           given
           unto
           the
           Lords
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           in
           or
           about
           the
           third
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           by
           Sir
           
             Robert
             Banister
          
           Knight
           ,
           then
           one
           of
           the
           Officers
           of
           his
           Houshold
           ,
           of
           what
           was
           yearly
           saved
           to
           the
           King
           by
           the
           Compositions
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           over
           and
           above
           the
           yearly
           value
           of
           what
           it
           cost
           the
           Countries
           (
           when
           the
           rates
           were
           both
           in
           the
           Country
           and
           City
           of
           London
           not
           by
           a
           third
           part
           ,
           and
           in
           many
           things
           a
           half
           and
           more
           ,
           so
           much
           heightned
           as
           now
           they
           are
           ;
           and
           a
           project
           of
           purchasing
           the
           Pourveyance
           from
           the
           Crown
           for
           
             Fifty
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           was
           in
           agitation
           )
           there
           appeared
           to
           have
           been
           yearly
           saved
           ▪
           by
           the
           Compositions
           and
           Commissions
           for
           Pourveyance
           the
           sum
           of
           
             Thirty
             four
             thousand
             eight
             hundred
             forty
             six
             pounds
             ▪
             ten
             shillings
             and
             six
             pence
          
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           Office
           for
           the
           Stable
           
             Two
             thousand
             six
             hundred
             ninety
             and
             eight
             pounds
          
           ;
           which
           made
           a
           Totall
           of
           
             Thirty
             seven
             thousand
             five
             hundred
             forty
             and
             four
             pounds
             ten
             
             shillings
             and
             six
             pence
          
           ;
           and
           probably
           might
           be
           the
           reason
           that
           that
           unhappily
           after
           accomplished
           designe
           did
           then
           vanish
           into
           nothing
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           Nor
           will
           the
           yearly
           damage
           &
           losses
           of
           the
           people
           in
           the
           totall
           arrive
           unto
           a
           lesse
           ,
           when
           they
           shall
           finde
           the
           moyety
           of
           the
           Excise
           not
           amounting
           to
           
             One
             hundred
             and
             thirty
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           in
           the
           utmost
           extent
           and
           income
           of
           it
           ,
           without
           deductions
           or
           defalcations
           to
           the
           Officers
           imployed
           by
           his
           Majesty
           therein
           to
           be
           doubled
           and
           made
           as
           much
           again
           upon
           them
           by
           the
           fraud
           and
           oppression
           of
           the
           Brewers
           ,
           little
           malt
           put
           into
           their
           Beer
           ,
           and
           ill
           boyling
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           lesser
           measures
           sold
           by
           the
           Inkeepers
           and
           Alehouse-keepers
           :
           And
           yet
           the
           Brewers
           being
           paid
           the
           Excise
           of
           Beer
           and
           Ale
           by
           the
           housekeepers
           and
           Retailers
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           they
           do
           pay
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           Excise
           of
           three
           Barrels
           of
           Beer
           ,
           and
           two
           of
           Ale
           in
           every
           twenty
           ,
           allowed
           them
           will
           not
           think
           it
           enough
           to
           cozen
           and
           abuse
           the
           people
           whose
           good
           and
           evil
           ,
           and
           profit
           and
           loss
           is
           included
           in
           that
           of
           the
           Kings
           ,
           unless
           they
           do
           also
           by
           false
           Gaugings
           concealed
           Brewings
           ,
           and
           other
           ill
           Artifices
           ,
           use
           all
           the
           wayes
           and
           means
           which
           they
           can
           ,
           to
           make
           themselves
           great
           gainers
           by
           deceiving
           the
           King
           as
           well
           as
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           will
           like
           too
           many
           of
           their
           fellow
           Citizens
           ,
           the
           great
           Tax-Improvers
           and
           Advantage-catchers
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           be
           sure
           to
           be
           as
           little
           loosers
           by
           it
           as
           the
           Fox
           would
           ,
           if
           a
           monthly
           Assessement
           should
           be
           set
           upon
           him
           for
           his
           subterranean
           Boroughes
           and
           dark
           Labirinths
           ;
           or
           the
           griping
           Usurer
           ,
           the
           biting
           Broker
           ,
           and
           the
           knavish
           Informer
           would
           be
           if
           an
           yearly
           Imposition
           or
           Tax
           should
           be
           layd
           upon
           their
           ungodly
           and
           oppressive
           gains
           and
           Imployments
           .
        
         
         
           2.
           
           Neither
           will
           the
           peoples
           loss
           &
           damage
           be
           lessened
           when
           there
           shall
           be
           a
           scarcity
           of
           Food
           &
           Provisions
           at
           the
           Markets
           in
           regard
           that
           the
           Kings
           Officers
           and
           Pourveyors
           for
           his
           Houshold
           shall
           now
           be
           constrained
           to
           buy
           his
           Houshold
           provisions
           in
           great
           quantities
           at
           the
           Markets
           or
           Shops
           in
           London
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           Counties
           adjacent
           ,
           which
           were
           wont
           to
           be
           served
           in
           kind
           by
           the
           several
           Counties
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           And
           there
           shall
           be
           an
           enhaunce
           of
           prices
           and
           Market-races
           ,
           which
           since
           the
           acquittall
           or
           laying
           down
           of
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           it
           ,
           are
           already
           about
           London
           and
           Westminster
           found
           to
           be
           at
           the
           least
           
             two
             pence
          
           in
           a
           shilling
           more
           then
           it
           was
           before
           ;
           which
           being
           a
           sixth
           part
           ,
           will
           when
           it
           shall
           be
           raised
           and
           made
           to
           be
           an
           ordinary
           rate
           through
           the
           adjacent
           Counties
           to
           London
           and
           Westminster
           make
           no
           inconsiderable
           burden
           or
           charge
           to
           the
           Inhabitants
           ,
           and
           a
           greater
           ,
           if
           either
           all
           or
           some
           part
           of
           that
           more
           th●n
           formerly
           raised
           price
           ,
           shall
           by
           necessity
           or
           imitation
           ,
           and
           the
           vast
           and
           excessive
           pride
           of
           most
           sorts
           of
           people
           ,
           diffuse
           and
           spread
           it self
           into
           all
           other
           parts
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           if
           those
           
             insana
             praetia
          
           ,
           unreasonable
           rates
           ,
           shall
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           most
           likely
           ,
           by
           the
           high
           rack
           of
           the
           Rents
           of
           Lands
           ,
           Servants
           ,
           and
           Laborers
           wages
           ,
           and
           all
           manner
           of
           Commodities
           which
           are
           sold
           ,
           either
           for
           the
           Belly
           or
           the
           Back
           ,
           or
           for
           necessity
           or
           pleasure
           ,
           creep
           and
           climb
           higher
           and
           higher
           ,
           untill
           pride
           and
           excess
           shall
           have
           made
           our
           heretofore
           more
           prudent
           and
           frugall
           England
           ,
           by
           too
           many
           of
           her
           Natives
           want
           of
           money
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           wit
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           Bankrupt
           .
        
         
           Which
           may
           well
           be
           suspected
           ,
           when
           as
           experience
           ,
           the
           
             Mistress
             of
             Fools
          
           ,
           but
           the
           
             guide
             and
             direction
             of
             wiser
             
             people
             ,
          
           hath
           assured
           us
           that
           the
           price
           extorted
           from
           the
           King
           will
           make
           the
           Nobility
           pay
           the
           dearer
           ;
           and
           the
           rates
           which
           their
           example
           will
           enforce
           or
           entice
           the
           Gentry
           to
           pay
           ,
           will
           infect
           and
           prejudice
           the
           Marketings
           of
           the
           Common
           and
           buying
           part
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           as
           we
           have
           lately
           seen
           in
           the
           rates
           and
           prices
           of
           Horses
           ;
           not
           by
           reason
           of
           any
           exportation
           or
           sca●city
           ,
           manage
           or
           fitness
           for
           warre
           ,
           or
           extraordinary
           swiftness
           for
           running
           or
           races
           ;
           but
           by
           the
           careers
           of
           Prodigality
           ,
           Humour
           ,
           Affection
           ,
           or
           Fancy
           of
           too
           many
           of
           the
           Nobility
           or
           Gentry
           ,
           mounted
           from
           ten
           or
           twelve
           pounds
           price
           for
           a
           horse
           for
           a
           man
           of
           worship
           within
           thirty
           years
           last
           past
           ,
           to
           the
           ordinary
           rate
           of
           20
           ,
           30
           ,
           40
           ,
           or
           50
           l.
           and
           sometimes
           100
           l.
           which
           hath
           unnecessarily
           drawn
           some
           
             hundred
             thousand
             pounds
          
           sterling
           out
           of
           the
           purses
           of
           such
           who
           are
           but
           small
           friends
           to
           their
           own
           Estates
           ,
           in
           bidding
           too
           much
           ,
           and
           accustoming
           the
           Sellers
           to
           demand
           or
           insist
           upon
           such
           excessive
           and
           reasonless
           rates
           and
           prices
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           And
           by
           the
           want
           of
           Progresses
           ,
           when
           the
           King
           not
           having
           his
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           Carriages
           as
           formerly
           ,
           sha●l
           not
           be
           so
           able
           as
           he
           should
           ,
           to
           make
           our
           Pool
           of
           Bethesda
           itinerant
           ,
           and
           visit
           the
           severall
           Parts
           of
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           either
           for
           his
           recreation
           ,
           or
           the
           better
           survey
           and
           inspection
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           his
           peoples
           grievances
           ,
           as
           King
           Alfred
           ,
           King
           Edgar
           ,
           and
           King
           Henry
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           all
           their
           Successors
           ,
           his
           Majesties
           Royall
           Progenitors
           were
           wont
           to
           do
           ,
           whereby
           to
           diffuse
           their
           comforts
           and
           graces
           ,
           with
           which
           many
           a
           Family
           ,
           and
           many
           a
           Town
           and
           Corporation
           have
           been
           blessed
           and
           bettered
           ;
           and
           otherwise
           would
           not
           have
           had
           an
           opportunity
           to
           obteyn
           them
           .
        
         
           5.
           
           When
           there
           shall
           be
           necessities
           and
           poverty
           put
           
           upon
           some
           hundreds
           of
           Families
           ,
           which
           were
           either
           his
           Majesties
           Servants
           ,
           or
           in
           relation
           unto
           them
           ;
           and
           upon
           many
           an
           Housekeeper
           in
           Westminster
           ,
           and
           the
           Neighbourhood
           of
           the
           Kings
           Residence
           ,
           who
           have
           had
           a
           great
           part
           of
           their
           subsistence
           by
           the
           influence
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           6.
           
           And
           the
           Peoples
           damage
           and
           losses
           shall
           likewise
           be
           heightned
           and
           increased
           by
           the
           many
           cravings
           and
           projects
           which
           the
           wanting
           or
           necessitous
           part
           of
           the
           Kings
           Court
           may
           trouble
           both
           him
           and
           his
           people
           withall
           .
        
         
           7.
           
           Or
           by
           the
           casting
           the
           King
           into
           importunate
           and
           irresistable
           necessities
           ;
           and
           forcing
           the
           Lyon
           to
           hunt
           and
           range
           the
           Fields
           and
           Forrests
           ,
           and
           prejudice
           the
           people
           more
           then
           otherwise
           he
           would
           in
           the
           quest
           and
           pursuit
           of
           what
           is
           but
           his
           own
           ;
           or
           to
           couch
           and
           lye
           down
           in
           his
           den
           ,
           and
           resolve
           to
           lay
           his
           paw
           upon
           what
           are
           his
           own
           rights
           ,
           and
           be
           less
           liberall
           in
           his
           favours
           .
        
         
           8.
           
           Or
           by
           denying
           him
           what
           is
           his
           own
           ,
           be
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           a
           lesser
           summe
           of
           money
           for
           defraying
           of
           necessaries
           ,
           a
           cause
           of
           raising
           Subsidies
           ,
           or
           Taxes
           ,
           which
           cannot
           be
           so
           equally
           or
           justly
           charged
           ,
           as
           to
           even
           ,
           and
           make
           them
           to
           be
           no
           more
           then
           the
           summe
           of
           money
           demanded
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           furnished
           .
        
         
           9.
           
           And
           by
           compassing
           and
           encircling
           their
           Sovereign
           with
           wants
           and
           pressures
           more
           then
           would
           otherwise
           be
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           either
           his
           own
           ,
           or
           a
           sufficient
           supply
           ,
           make
           themselves
           the
           efficient
           causes
           of
           what
           they
           compleyn
           of
           ;
           and
           by
           being
           stubborn
           ,
           stiffneck'd
           ,
           unquiet
           ,
           and
           disobedient
           ,
           instead
           of
           duty
           and
           retributions
           to
           a
           gracious
           King
           for
           the
           daily
           blessing
           of
           peace
           ,
           plenty
           ,
           protection
           ,
           pardons
           ,
           and
           multitudes
           of
           favours
           ,
           gifts
           ,
           and
           grants
           ,
           out-do
           the
           ungratefull
           Israelites
           in
           
           murmuring
           with
           Quails
           in
           our
           Mouths
           ;
           not
           in
           the
           Deserts
           of
           Arabia
           ;
           but
           a
           more
           plentifull
           Land
           then
           that
           which
           was
           said
           to
           flow
           with
           milk
           and
           honey
           .
        
         
           And
           a
           cause
           also
           of
           increasing
           their
           own
           Taxes
           which
           are
           more
           many
           times
           the
           impositions
           by
           themselves
           upon
           themselves
           then
           impositions
           of
           their
           King
           ,
           and
           rendring
           themselves
           thereby
           as
           much
           guilty
           of
           folly
           ,
           as
           they
           that
           will
           not
           be
           diswaded
           from
           planting
           and
           sowing
           Weeds
           and
           Tares
           and
           will
           notwithstanding
           come
           weeping
           home
           from
           their
           expected
           better
           harvest
           ,
           for
           that
           their
           Carts
           are
           not
           pressed
           down
           with
           sheaves
           of
           Corne
           and
           Wheat
           ,
           and
           their
           labour
           was
           but
           to
           fool
           themselves
           .
        
         
           All
           which
           and
           many
           more
           inconveniences
           losses
           and
           damages
           to
           the
           people
           by
           the
           Kings
           want
           of
           the
           Royall
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           smallest
           and
           least
           chargeable
           part
           of
           an
           yearly
           thankfulness
           and
           oblation
           which
           ever
           was
           given
           to
           a
           King
           by
           a
           people
           ,
           would
           neither
           happen
           nor
           needs
           to
           be
           at
           all
           .
        
         
           If
           they
           would
           but
           remember
           the
           days
           of
           old
           ,
           the
           kindness
           of
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Royall
           Progenitors
           ,
           and
           the
           chearfully
           heretofore
           paid
           Duties
           and
           retributions
           of
           their
           forefathers
           ,
           and
           take
           it
           for
           some
           of
           their
           happiness
           that
           they
           are
           not
           by
           God
           Almighties
           displeasure
           for
           their
           unthankfulness
           put
           in
           minde
           of
           their
           former
           miseries
           by
           any
           new
           adversities
           ,
           or
           made
           to
           keep
           an
           yearly
           Passeover
           with
           bitter
           Herbs
           ,
           And
           now
           that
           the
           Royal
           Revenue
           hath
           been
           so
           much
           impaired
           by
           a
           continual
           bounty
           unto
           many
           of
           themselves
           or
           their
           Ancestors
           and
           their
           supplyes
           of
           it
           doe
           fall
           very
           short
           of
           what
           was
           expected
           or
           intended
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Fifty
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             Annum
          
           intended
           as
           a
           Recompence
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           proves
           to
           be
           
           not
           only
           not
           a
           recompence
           sufficient
           but
           a
           meer
           nullity
           ,
           and
           if
           it
           had
           come
           up
           as
           high
           as
           it
           was
           supposed
           appears
           to
           be
           but
           a
           damage
           and
           a
           Canker
           or
           Gangreen
           eating
           up
           or
           taking
           away
           too
           much
           of
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Kings
           Revenue
           .
        
         
           Be
           sorry
           that
           it
           is
           so
           ,
           and
           make
           haste
           to
           returne
           again
           those
           little
           oblations
           unto
           their
           King
           ,
           when
           London
           ,
           and
           12.
           or
           more
           adjacent
           Counties
           unto
           it
           do
           yearly
           gain
           20
           times
           more
           by
           the
           Residence
           of
           himself
           and
           his
           Courts
           of
           Justice
           then
           they
           doe
           amount
           unto
           ,
           and
           doe
           unto
           him
           in
           the
           easing
           of
           his
           burdens
           ,
           as
           he
           and
           his
           Royal
           Progenitors
           have
           done
           unto
           them
           in
           any
           of
           the
           complained
           of
           burdens
           of
           them
           and
           their
           Forefathers
           ,
           by
           many
           times
           laying
           to
           sleep
           some
           good
           Laws
           &
           Constitutions
           ,
           which
           though
           at
           the
           making
           thereof
           they
           were
           most
           just
           and
           rationall
           ,
           would
           now
           by
           the
           rise
           of
           silver
           two
           to
           one
           more
           then
           formerly
           ,
           
           &
           the
           change
           of
           Times
           and
           Customes
           ,
           be
           very
           prejudiciall
           and
           burdensome
           unto
           them
           .
           As
           King
           Henry
           the
           First
           did
           by
           no
           Law
           or
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           but
           his
           own
           good
           will
           and
           promise
           ,
           calculated
           only
           for
           that
           present
           Age
           or
           Reign
           ;
           but
           since
           observed
           by
           all
           his
           Successors
           ,
           in
           the
           change
           of
           his
           rent
           provisions
           into
           Rents
           of
           money
           ;
           many
           of
           which
           being
           now
           and
           ever
           since
           paid
           in
           small
           quit-rents
           ,
           made
           that
           part
           of
           the
           People
           very
           great
           gainers
           ,
           
           and
           that
           King
           and
           his
           Heirs
           and
           Successors
           to
           be
           loosers
           more
           then
           
             Fifty
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           or
           the
           greatest
           extent
           of
           the
           Nations
           yearly
           charge
           for
           the
           Royall
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           did
           ever
           amount
           unto
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           the
           Asise
           of
           Bread
           ,
           Bear
           and
           Ale
           in
           51
           
             H.
             tertii
          
           ,
           which
           holds
           no
           proportion
           with
           the
           now
           Assize
           or
           rules
           for
           Bakers
           and
           Brewers
           ,
           but
           very
           much
           differs
           from
           it
           ,
           and
           exceeds
           it
           ,
           was
           not
           for
           many
           ages
           past
           ,
           
           and
           in
           some
           plentifull
           years
           in
           our
           memory
           kept
           ,
           when
           Corn
           ,
           Wheat
           and
           Malt
           did
           fall
           within
           the
           virge
           or
           direction
           of
           that
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           or
           Ordinance
           rather
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           without
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           Nor
           did
           hold
           those
           kind
           of
           Trades
           to
           the
           Assize
           made
           and
           appointed
           by
           King
           Henry
           the
           7
           th
           .
           nor
           by
           any
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           or
           otherwise
           ,
           restrain
           the
           Shoemakers
           to
           the
           prices
           appointed
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           25
           Ed.
           3.
           (
           repealed
           in
           the
           5
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           )
           when
           there
           was
           an
           allowed
           transportation
           of
           Leather
           ,
           and
           scarcely
           half
           so
           many
           Cattle
           bred
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           brought
           from
           Ireland
           and
           Scotland
           ;
           nor
           any
           Leather
           at
           all
           imported
           from
           Russia
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           now
           in
           great
           quantities
           ,
           when
           they
           do
           now
           by
           their
           own
           and
           the
           Tanners
           knaveries
           ,
           and
           enhaunces
           ,
           take
           for
           a
           pair
           of
           shoes
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           2
           d.
           might
           be
           bought
           for
           the
           use
           of
           a
           good
           Knight
           or
           Gentleman
           ,
           for
           a
           groat
           ,
           
           and
           in
           Yorkshire
           for
           some
           of
           the
           best
           Gentry
           of
           that
           County
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           but
           for
           little
           more
           ;
           where
           also
           a
           pair
           of
           shoes
           for
           a
           Lady
           of
           a
           good
           Extraction
           and
           Quality
           ,
           were
           in
           the
           begining
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           sold
           for
           sixteen
           pence
           ;
           and
           a
           pair
           of
           shoes
           for
           a
           man
           in
           the
           memory
           of
           middle
           aged
           men
           were
           made
           and
           sold
           in
           London
           for
           two
           shillings
           six
           pence
           ,
           and
           eight
           groats
           a
           pair
           ,
           no
           less
           then
           four
           shillings
           eight
           pence
           at
           the
           lowest
           ,
           and
           many
           times
           five
           shillings
           and
           six
           pence
           ,
           or
           six
           shillings
           a
           pair
           ;
           which
           (
           as
           Mr.
           
             Richard
             Ferrour
          
           hath
           judiciously
           and
           ingeniously
           observed
           )
           doth
           yearly
           cheat
           and
           cozen
           the
           people
           ,
           besides
           the
           inconveniences
           by
           ill
           wrought
           and
           half
           tanned
           Leather
           ,
           
             six
             or
             seaven
             hundred
             thousand
          
           pounds
           ,
           or
           a
           Million
           Sterling
           
             per
             annum
          
           ;
           which
           might
           well
           have
           been
           spared
           ,
           or
           better
           employed
           .
        
         
         
           And
           be
           as
           willing
           to
           ease
           his
           burdens
           and
           grievances
           ,
           as
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           that
           mirrour
           of
           Women
           and
           Princes
           ,
           was
           in
           theirs
           ,
           by
           the
           repealing
           of
           so
           much
           of
           the
           Statute
           for
           limiting
           the
           wages
           of
           labourers
           in
           the
           25
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Third
           (
           when
           Churches
           ,
           Castles
           and
           Abbies
           we●e
           wont
           to
           be
           built
           )
           as
           concerned
           the
           wages
           of
           Labou●ers
           that
           
             Master
             Masons
             ,
             Carpenters
             ,
             and
             Tylers
             should
             take
             but
             three
             pence
             a
             day
             ,
             and
             others
             of
             that
             Trade
             but
             two
             pence
             a
             day
             ;
             a
             Tylers
             boy
             a
             peny
          
           per
           diem
           ;
           
           
             that
             none
             other
             should
             take
             above
             a
             penny
             for
             a
             days
             work
             ;
             for
             mowing
             five
             pence
             ,
             for
             reaping
             of
             Corn
             in
             the
             first
             week
             of
          
           August
           
             two
             pence
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             second
             week
             ,
             and
             unto
             the
             end
             of
             that
             moneth
             not
             above
             three
             pence
             :
          
           And
           by
           the
           making
           of
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           that
           the
           wages
           of
           Artificers
           and
           Labourers
           ,
           then
           six
           times
           more
           then
           they
           were
           at
           the
           time
           of
           the
           making
           of
           the
           said
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           in
           the
           25
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Third
           ,
           should
           be
           yearly
           assessed
           by
           the
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           and
           Magistrates
           in
           every
           County
           ,
           City
           ,
           and
           Town
           corporate
           at
           their
           Quarter-Sessions
           ,
           with
           respect
           unto
           the
           plenty
           and
           scarcity
           of
           the
           time
           ,
           and
           other
           circumstances
           necessary
           to
           be
           considered
           ;
           
             for
             that
             (
             as
             the
             praeamble
             thereof
             declared
             )
             the
             wages
             and
             allowances
             limited
             and
             rated
             in
             former
             Statutes
             ,
             were
             in
             divers
             places
             too
             small
             ,
             and
             not
             answerable
             to
             that
             time
             ,
             respecting
             the
             advancement
             of
             the
             prices
             of
             all
             things
             belonging
             unto
             Artificers
             and
             Labourers
             ;
             that
             the
             Law
             could
             not
             conveniently
             ,
             without
             the
             great
             grief
             and
             burden
             of
             the
             poor
             Labourers
             and
             hired
             men
             be
             put
             in
             execution
             ,
             and
             to
             the
             end
             ,
             that
             there
             might
             be
             a
             convenient
             proportion
             of
             wages
             in
             the
             times
             of
             scarcity
             and
             plenty
             .
          
        
         
           Which
           was
           the
           cause
           that
           King
           James
           by
           an
           Act
           of
           
           Parliament
           made
           in
           the
           first
           year
           of
           his
           Reign
           ,
           upon
           compleynt
           ,
           that
           their
           wages
           were
           not
           rated
           and
           proportioned
           ,
           
             according
             to
             the
             plenty
             ,
             necessity
             ,
             and
             scarcity
             ,
             and
             respect
             of
             the
             time
             ,
          
           as
           was
           politiquely
           intended
           by
           the
           said
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           did
           amongst
           other
           provisions
           ,
           give
           a
           further
           power
           &
           authority
           to
           the
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           in
           every
           County
           at
           their
           Quarter
           Sessions
           ,
           from
           time
           to
           time
           ,
           to
           limit
           and
           regulate
           the
           wages
           and
           hire
           of
           Labourers
           and
           Artificers
           (
           although
           their
           wages
           and
           hire
           were
           then
           much
           encreased
           ,
           and
           are
           since
           very
           excessive
           ,
           and
           immoderate
           )
           which
           by
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           made
           in
           the
           third
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           Martir
           ,
           being
           continued
           untill
           the
           end
           of
           the
           first
           Session
           of
           the
           then
           next
           Parliament
           ,
           is
           for
           want
           of
           continuance
           expired
           ,
           and
           did
           repeal
           ,
           as
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           and
           other
           of
           our
           Kings
           also
           did
           ,
           many
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           in
           regard
           of
           Inconveniences
           or
           damages
           arising
           to
           the
           people
           or
           because
           they
           did
           not
           answer
           the
           expectations
           of
           the
           makers
           thereof
           .
        
         
           And
           may
           as
           little
           grudge
           the
           King
           his
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           though
           the
           richer
           part
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           who
           are
           only
           contributory
           to
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           may
           by
           their
           own
           excessive
           raysing
           of
           all
           manner
           of
           prices
           of
           houshold
           provisions
           ,
           and
           their
           unreasonable
           gains
           by
           it
           ,
           seem
           to
           be
           something
           more
           then
           formerly
           burdened
           with
           it
           ;
           as
           they
           did
           the
           late
           King
           Charles
           the
           Martyr
           his
           indulgence
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           dispensing
           with
           a
           Decree
           made
           in
           the
           Starre-Chamber
           in
           the
           11
           th
           year
           of
           his
           Reign
           ,
           by
           the
           Lords
           of
           his
           Privy
           Councel
           ,
           and
           other
           the
           Judges
           of
           that
           Court
           ,
           after
           consultation
           had
           with
           Judge
           Hutton
           and
           Judge
           Croke
           (
           who
           were
           well
           known
           to
           be
           very
           great
           well-wishers
           to
           the
           peoples
           just
           and
           legall
           liberties
           )
           and
           
           the
           other
           reverend
           Judges
           and
           divers
           Justices
           of
           the
           peace
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           confirmed
           by
           the
           Kings
           Letters
           Patents
           under
           the
           great
           Seal
           of
           England
           ,
           which
           did
           forbid
           the
           Vintners
           to
           dress
           any
           meat
           for
           their
           Guests
           or
           Strangers
           ,
           and
           limited
           the
           Inkeepers
           of
           London
           and
           Westminster
           ,
           and
           within
           ten
           miles
           distance
           thereof
           ,
           unto
           six
           pence
           for
           a
           day
           and
           night
           for
           Hey
           for
           a
           horse
           ,
           now
           ●●shamefully
           and
           unconscionably
           raised
           by
           themselves
           unto
           eight
           pence
           ;
           and
           six
           pence
           for
           a
           peck
           of
           Oats
           not
           measured
           by
           Winchester
           measure
           ,
           but
           the
           knavish
           peck
           of
           the
           Ostlers
           (
           to
           whom
           the
           dying
           horses
           might
           well
           bequeath
           their
           Halters
           )
           at
           the
           rate
           of
           eight
           groats
           a
           bushell
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           many
           times
           bought
           them
           in
           the
           Market
           at
           
             Twelve
             pence
          
           a
           bushell
           ,
           or
           less
           .
           And
           directed
           that
           
             that
             Ordinance
             should
             continue
             in
             the
             County
             of
          
           Middlesex
           ,
           
             untill
             it
             should
             appear
             unto
             the
             Justices
             of
             the
             Kings
             Bench
             ,
             and
             in
             other
             Counties
             and
             Places
             to
             the
             Justices
             of
             Peace
             ,
             that
             because
             of
             the
             increase
             of
             prices
             in
             the
             parts
             adjoyning
             ,
             greater
             rates
             should
             be
             necessary
             to
             be
             permitted
             ;
             and
             that
             thereupon
             other
             rates
             should
             from
             time
             to
             time
             be
             set
             ;
             and
             being
             set
             ,
             were
             commanded
             ,
             and
             enjoyned
             to
             be
             strictly
             and
             duly
             observed
             ,
             untill
             they
             by
             the
             like
             authority
             should
             be
             altered
             .
          
        
         
           And
           might
           be
           as
           little
           troubled
           at
           his
           Pourveyance
           ,
           as
           they
           were
           with
           his
           Royal
           Fathers
           remission
           ,
           or
           not
           putting
           in
           execution
           the
           Assise
           (
           in
           imitation
           of
           one
           which
           was
           made
           in
           anno
           12
           H.
           7.
           )
           made
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           by
           the
           advice
           of
           the
           Lord
           Burghley
           ,
           and
           other
           of
           the
           Lords
           of
           her
           Privy
           Counsell
           )
           of
           
             Flesh
             ,
             Fish
             ,
             Poultry
             ,
             butter
             ,
          
           and
           most
           sorts
           of
           Victuals
           ,
           and
           houshold
           Provisions
           ;
           as
           also
           of
           Hey
           and
           Provender
           :
           and
           another
           likewise
           set
           and
           made
           by
           the
           Judges
           of
           the
           Kings
           Bench
           in
           or
           about
           the
           first
           
           year
           of
           his
           Reign
           ,
           by
           the
           advice
           of
           all
           the
           other
           Judges
           of
           England
           ,
           at
           the
           instance
           of
           Mr
           Noy
           his
           Atturney-Generall
           .
        
         
           Which
           might
           perswade
           us
           to
           be
           something
           kind
           to
           our selves
           ,
           and
           our
           posterity
           ,
           in
           being
           kinder
           unto
           him
           ;
           for
           that
           the
           losses
           and
           damage
           to
           the
           King
           and
           his
           People
           without
           the
           addition
           of
           their
           losses
           by
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           ,
           are
           and
           will
           be
           so
           very
           great
           and
           evident
           ;
           and
           the
           loss
           of
           the
           King
           may
           by
           a
           necessity
           of
           their
           supplying
           of
           it
           ,
           be
           in
           the
           end
           a
           means
           of
           doubling
           or
           trebling
           the
           losses
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           should
           therefore
           deterre
           us
           from
           any
           endeavours
           to
           eclipse
           our
           Sun
           ,
           and
           bereave
           our selves
           of
           the
           light
           and
           comfort
           of
           it
           ;
           and
           diswade
           us
           from
           the
           purchase
           of
           so
           many
           mischiefs
           and
           inconveniences
           as
           have
           already
           happened
           ;
           and
           are
           like
           to
           multiply
           upon
           us
           ,
           by
           making
           our selves
           the
           most
           unhappy
           Instruments
           of
           the
           dishonour
           of
           our
           King
           and
           Country
           in
           the
           diminution
           of
           the
           accustomed
           grandeur
           and
           magnificence
           of
           his
           Court
           and
           Hospitality
           ,
           wherein
           plenty
           and
           frugality
           ,
           largess
           and
           providence
           ,
           satiety
           and
           sobriety
           ,
           honour
           and
           hospitality
           ,
           were
           so
           excellently
           and
           rationally
           combined
           ,
           and
           confederated
           ,
           as
           the
           best
           of
           Oeconomies
           ;
           and
           the
           greatest
           vigilance
           ,
           daily
           care
           ,
           and
           inspection
           in
           the
           most
           methodicall
           and
           best
           ordered
           House
           and
           Family
           of
           England
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           the
           Kings
           Dominions
           ,
           consisting
           of
           10
           or
           20
           persons
           ,
           or
           a
           lesser
           number
           (
           a
           few
           being
           commonly
           the
           easiest
           governed
           )
           could
           never
           arrive
           unto
           〈◊〉
           ●erfection
           of
           government
           ,
           and
           good
           order
           of
           the
           Kings
           Houshold
           ,
           consisting
           of
           a
           numerous
           Retinue
           of
           above
           
             One
             thousand
          
           or
           
             twelve
             hundred
          
           persons
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           them
           of
           the
           best
           extraction
           ,
           and
           noblest
           houses
           of
           the
           
           Kingdom
           ,
           where
           besides
           the
           charge
           of
           his
           most
           pious
           and
           devout
           yearly
           Maundy
           ,
           or
           washing
           as
           many
           poor
           mens
           feet
           every
           year
           upon
           the
           Thursday
           before
           Easter
           as
           he
           is
           years
           old
           ,
           &
           giving
           unto
           each
           of
           them
           a
           Jowl
           of
           Salmon
           ,
           a
           Poll
           of
           Ling
           ,
           30
           red
           Herrings
           ,
           and
           as
           many
           white
           ,
           4
           six
           peny
           loavs
           of
           bread
           ,
           Cloth
           for
           a
           Gown
           and
           a
           Shirt
           ,
           a
           pair
           of
           new
           Shoes
           &
           Stockings
           ,
           a
           single
           penny
           ,
           and
           a
           20
           shillings
           piece
           of
           Gold
           :
           Two
           pence
           a
           piece
           was
           given
           to
           poor
           people
           every
           day
           at
           the
           Gate
           ,
           besides
           the
           Kings
           Alms-dish
           every
           meal
           from
           of
           his
           Table
           ,
           and
           the
           fragments
           carefully
           gathered
           up
           from
           the
           many
           Tables
           of
           his
           Servants
           ,
           put
           into
           an
           A●mes-basket
           ,
           and
           daily
           distributed
           unto
           them
           by
           two
           Officers
           ,
           yearly
           kept
           in
           pay
           and
           pension
           for
           that
           purpose
           :
           Six
           Mess
           of
           Meat
           ,
           240
           Gallons
           of
           Beer
           ,
           and
           as
           many
           of
           loaves
           of
           Bread
           ,
           with
           a
           liberal
           proportion
           of
           Sack
           and
           Claret
           as
           wast
           ;
           and
           entertainment
           for
           all
           comers
           for
           the
           Kings
           honour
           ,
           where
           were
           great
           yearly
           Festivals
           ,
           the
           Lord
           Stewards
           Table
           completely
           ,
           and
           more
           then
           ordinarily
           furnished
           during
           all
           the
           time
           of
           the
           sitting
           of
           the
           Parliaments
           ,
           to
           entertain
           such
           of
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           as
           would
           come
           thither
           to
           dinner
           ,
           and
           where
           when
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Persons
           of
           quality
           in
           the
           absence
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           came
           either
           to
           attend
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           petition
           him
           in
           any
           of
           their
           Affaires
           ,
           they
           were
           made
           the
           Guests
           at
           some
           of
           the
           Tables
           of
           his
           great
           Officers
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           those
           of
           meaner
           ranks
           were
           at
           the
           Table
           of
           the
           lesser
           :
           And
           the
           Chambers
           and
           Galleries
           searched
           for
           〈◊〉
           strangers
           and
           fit
           persons
           as
           might
           deserve
           to
           be
           invi●ed
           to
           the
           Tables
           and
           Diet
           of
           his
           Servants
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           that
           any
           that
           were
           fitting
           to
           partake
           of
           his
           hospitality
           might
           not
           be
           omitted
           .
           Embassadors
           which
           came
           sometimes
           two
           at
           once
           from
           severall
           forreign
           
           Princes
           found
           themselves
           royally
           enterteyned
           for
           certain
           days
           out
           of
           the
           diet
           and
           provision
           of
           the
           Kings
           house
           ,
           (
           and
           nothing
           of
           State
           or
           Provision
           wanting
           at
           the
           same
           time
           in
           the
           Kings
           own
           Court
           or
           House
           )
           and
           attended
           with
           as
           great
           or
           more
           plenty
           &
           solemnity
           ,
           then
           many
           of
           their
           Kings
           &
           Princes
           had
           at
           home
           ,
           &
           where
           no
           Country
           Gentleman
           or
           Yeoman
           ,
           which
           had
           contributed
           to
           the
           Pourveyance
           but
           at
           one
           time
           of
           the
           year
           or
           other
           ,
           had
           upon
           all
           occasions
           of
           business
           at
           the
           Court
           ,
           either
           with
           the
           King
           or
           his
           Servants
           ,
           a
           large
           part
           or
           share
           of
           what
           he
           had
           contributed
           .
        
         
           And
           was
           so
           gratefully
           and
           well
           accepted
           ,
           as
           some
           have
           anciently
           ,
           (
           when
           gratitude
           and
           thankfull
           respects
           were
           more
           in
           fashion
           than
           now
           they
           are
           )
           so
           highly
           esteemed
           the
           respects
           and
           favours
           of
           the
           Kings
           Servants
           and
           Officers
           ,
           when
           they
           had
           occasion
           of
           business
           to
           his
           Court
           ,
           as
           
             Robert
             de
             Arsic
          
           ,
           a
           man
           of
           great
           note
           and
           eminency
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Oxford
           ,
           did
           give
           Lands
           in
           Newton
           by
           a
           Fine
           levyed
           thereof
           unto
           one
           
             Robert
             Purcell
          
           ,
           and
           his
           Heirs
           (
           who
           was
           then
           one
           of
           the
           Porters
           at
           the
           Gate
           of
           the
           Kings
           House
           or
           Court
           by
           inheritance
           ,
           upon
           condition
           ,
           that
           whensoever
           he
           and
           his
           Heirs
           should
           come
           unto
           the
           Court
           ,
           the
           said
           
             Robert
             Purcell
             and
             his
             Heirs
             ,
             whilst
             they
             should
             be
             the
             Kings
             Porters
             ,
             should
             attend
             their
             coming
             ,
             come
             out
             of
             the
             gate
             to
             meet
             them
             ;
             and
             walk
             before
             them
             with
             his
             rod
             or
             staffe
             unto
             the
             Kings
             Hall
             ,
             and
             at
             their
             return
             or
             going
             out
             of
             the
             gate
             ,
             call
             for
             their
             horse
             or
             Palfrey
             ,
             and
             hold
             their
             stirrup
             whilst
             they
             got
             up
             or
             mounted
             :
             and
             if
             the
             said
          
           Robert
           Arsic
           
             or
             his
             Heirs
             should
             send
             any
             Messenger
             to
             the
             Court
             ,
             should
             as
             much
             as
             in
             them
             lay
             ,
             and
             according
             to
             their
             ability
             ,
             with
             their
             good
             word
             and
             well
             wishes
             ,
             faithfully
             assist
             him
             :
          
           And
           was
           so
           unwilling
           to
           loose
           that
           
           Service
           or
           Duty
           as
           upon
           the
           refusall
           or
           omission
           thereof
           by
           the
           said
           
             Robert
             Purcell
          
           ,
           he
           did
           in
           the
           11
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           3.
           bring
           an
           Assise
           or
           Action
           against
           him
           for
           it
           :
           
           (
           for
           as
           for
           our
           Industrious
           Speed
           setting
           forth
           in
           his
           History
           of
           England
           ,
           that
           
             Rhese
             ap
             Gruffith
          
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           coming
           out
           of
           Wales
           as
           far
           as
           Oxford
           ,
           to
           treat
           of
           a
           Peace
           with
           King
           Richard
           the
           First
           ,
           
           did
           take
           it
           in
           so
           high
           a
           scorn
           ,
           and
           indignation
           that
           the
           King
           came
           not
           in
           person
           to
           meet
           him
           ,
           as
           he
           returned
           home
           into
           his
           own
           Country
           without
           saluting
           the
           King
           ,
           though
           Earl
           John
           the
           Kings
           only
           Brother
           had
           with
           much
           honour
           conducted
           him
           from
           the
           Marches
           of
           Wales
           thither
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           that
           means
           the
           hopes
           of
           the
           expected
           peace
           vanished
           ,
           and
           came
           unto
           nothing
           )
           hath
           observed
           that
           
             the
             meanest
             from
             whom
             love
             or
             service
             is
             expected
             ,
             will
             again
             expect
             regard
             .
          
        
         
           And
           therefore
           the
           care
           of
           our
           Kings
           was
           not
           a
           little
           imployed
           in
           that
           way
           of
           imparting
           of
           their
           favours
           ,
           and
           increasing
           and
           cherishing
           the
           love
           and
           good
           will
           of
           their
           people
           ,
           when
           King
           Henry
           the
           Seventh
           ,
           whose
           troubles
           and
           tosses
           of
           fortune
           before
           he
           came
           unto
           the
           Crown
           ,
           had
           together
           with
           his
           learning
           and
           princely
           education
           ,
           made
           him
           a
           great
           Master
           in
           Policy
           ,
           and
           good
           Government
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           the
           wisest
           Kings
           that
           ever
           swaied
           the
           English
           Scepter
           ,
           did
           in
           his
           prudent
           Orders
           concerning
           his
           Court
           and
           Houshold
           ,
           and
           the
           State
           and
           Magnificence
           which
           he
           desired
           to
           be
           observed
           therein
           ,
           communicated
           unto
           me
           by
           my
           worthy
           and
           learned
           Friend
           
             William
             Dugdale
          
           Esquire
           Norroy
           ,
           
           King
           at
           Armes
           ,
           out
           of
           an
           ancient
           Manuscript
           ,
           sometimes
           in
           the
           custody
           of
           
             Charles
             de
             Somerset
          
           Knight
           ,
           Lord
           Herbert
           and
           Gower
           ,
           Chamberlain
           unto
           that
           King
           ,
           amongst
           many
           other
           Orders
           for
           the
           honour
           of
           the
           King
           and
           his
           House
           ,
           ordain
           that
        
         
         
           
             If
             any
             straunger
             shall
             come
             from
             any
             Noble-man
             or
             other
             ,
             the
             Gentilmen
             Huysshers
             ought
             to
             sette
             him
             in
             suche
             place
             convenient
             within
             the
             Kyngs
             Chamber
             as
             is
             mete
             for
             hym
             by
             the
             discrecion
             of
             the
             Chamberlain
             and
             Huyssher
             ,
             and
             to
             comaunde
             service
             for
             hym
             after
             his
             degree
             ;
             and
             the
             sayd
             Huyssher
             ought
             to
             speke
             to
             the
             Kings
             Almoigner
             ,
             Kerver
             ,
             and
             Sewer
             ,
             to
             reward
             hym
             from
             the
             Kings
             Board
             ;
             this
             is
             to
             say
             if
             the
             said
             Straunger
             happen
             to
             come
             whan
             the
             Kyng
             is
             at
             dynner
             .
          
        
         
           Item
           ,
           
             The
             Gentilman
             Huyssher
             ,
             if
             there
             come
             any
             honourable
             personnes
             to
             the
             Kyng
             at
             any
             other
             tyme
             ,
             they
             ought
             to
             call
             with
             thaym
             the
             sayd
             personnes
             to
             the
             Seller
             ,
             Pantry
             ,
             and
             Buttry
             ,
             and
             there
             to
             commaund
             forth
             such
             brede
             ,
             mete
             ,
             and
             drynke
             ,
             as
             by
             his
             discretion
             shall
             be
             thought
             metely
             for
             thaym
             ;
             and
             this
             in
             no
             wise
             not
             to
             be
             with
             sayd
             in
             noon
             of
             thies
             Offices
             aforesayd
             ,
             It
             is
             to
             the
             Kings
             honor
             .
          
        
         
           Item
           ,
           
             that
             no
             Gentilman
             Huyssher
             bee
             so
             hardy
             to
             take
             any
             commaundement
             upon
             him
             ,
             but
             that
             it
             may
             be
             with
             the
             Kings
             honor
             ,
             by
             hys
             discretion
             in
             these
             matiers
             to
             myspende
             the
             Kings
             vitail
             ,
             but
             where
             as
             it
             ought
             to
             be
             ;
             and
             if
             he
             doo
             ,
             he
             is
             nat
             worthy
             to
             occupy
             that
             rowme
             ,
             but
             for
             to
             abide
             the
             punishment
             of
             my
             Lord
             Chamberlain
             .
          
        
         
           Item
           ,
           
             A
             Gentilman
             Huyssher
             ought
             to
             commaund
             Yeomen
             Huysshers
             ,
             and
             Yeomen
             to
             fetche
             bred
             ,
             ale
             ,
             and
             wine
             at
             afternoon
             for
             Lords
             and
             other
             Gentilmen
             being
             in
             the
             Kings
             Chamber
             ,
             whan
             the
             caas
             so●
             shall
             requyre
             .
          
        
         
           Which
           and
           the
           like
           Magnificences
           of
           Hospitality
           in
           the
           Houses
           and
           Courts
           of
           our
           Kings
           and
           Princes
           ,
           supported
           by
           the
           Pourveyances
           without
           which
           the
           elder
           Kings
           of
           England
           before
           the
           Conquest
           ,
           could
           not
           have
           been
           able
           to
           susteyn
           the
           charge
           of
           their
           great
           and
           yearly
           solemn
           Festivals
           at
           
             Christmas
             ,
             Easter
          
           and
           
           Pentecost
           ,
           when
           
             ex
             more
             &
             obsequii
             vinculo
             antiquissimo
             ,
          
           as
           that
           great
           and
           learned
           Antiquary
           Sir
           
             Henry
             Spelman
          
           hath
           observed
           by
           duty
           and
           antient
           custome
           ,
           the
           Lords
           and
           Barons
           of
           England
           did
           never
           fail
           to
           come
           to
           the
           Kings
           Palace
           (
           where
           the
           
             Magna
             Concilia
             &
             wittena
             gemotes
             &
             conventus
             sapientum
             ,
          
           now
           called
           Parliaments
           ,
           were
           at
           those
           times
           to
           be
           holden
           and
           kept
           )
           
             cum
             ad
             Curiam
             &
             personam
             ejus
             exornandum
             ,
          
           
           
             tum
             ad
             consulendum
             de
             negotiis
             regni
             statuendumque
             prout
             fuerat
             necessarium
             &
             providere
             de
             rebus
             illis
             Rex
             solebat
             corona
             redimitus
             &
             profastu
             Regio
             se
             in
             omnibus
             exhibere
             ,
          
           for
           the
           honor
           of
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Court
           who
           then
           with
           his
           Crown
           upon
           his
           head
           ,
           and
           other
           Princely
           habiliments
           ,
           did
           use
           to
           shew
           himself
           unto
           the
           people
           and
           advise
           what
           was
           necessary
           to
           be
           done
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           And
           was
           such
           an
           attendant
           upon
           the
           Grandeur
           and
           Honour
           of
           their
           Monarchy
           ,
           as
           it
           began
           with
           it
           ,
           and
           continued
           here
           amongst
           us
           till
           the
           Councill
           of
           some
           foolish
           and
           factious
           Shrubs
           had
           by
           a
           fire
           kindled
           in
           our
           then
           unhappy
           Kingdome
           ,
           overturned
           our
           Cedars
           of
           Libanon
           ,
           and
           made
           an
           accursed
           and
           wicked
           Bramble
           their
           Protector
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           necessary
           to
           the
           Government
           and
           Authority
           of
           our
           Kings
           ,
           
           and
           the
           encrease
           and
           preservation
           of
           the
           love
           and
           obedience
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           as
           we
           find
           it
           neither
           repined
           nor
           murmured
           at
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Alfred
           ,
           who
           being
           of
           an
           almost
           unimitable
           piety
           and
           prudence
           ,
           and
           to
           whom
           this
           Nation
           ows
           a
           gratefull
           memory
           for
           his
           division
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           into
           Shires
           and
           Hundreds
           ,
           and
           for
           many
           a
           Politique
           Constitution
           ,
           did
           (
           now
           almost
           800
           years
           ago
           )
           keep
           a
           most
           Princely
           and
           magnificent
           House
           ,
           and
           a
           numerous
           company
           of
           Servants
           ;
           gave
           enterteynment
           of
           diet
           and
           lodging
           to
           many
           of
           the
           sons
           
           of
           his
           Nobility
           ,
           who
           were
           therein
           trayned
           up
           to
           all
           manner
           of
           Courtly
           and
           honourable
           exercises
           ,
           had
           three
           Cohorts
           or
           Bands
           of
           Life-guards
           ,
           every
           Cohort
           according
           to
           the
           ancient
           computation
           consisting
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           Horse
           of
           132
           ,
           and
           of
           Foot
           ,
           of
           a
           great
           many
           more
           ;
           the
           first
           Company
           attending
           in
           or
           about
           his
           Court
           or
           House
           night
           and
           day
           for
           a
           moneth
           ,
           and
           returning
           aftewards
           home
           to
           their
           own
           occasions
           ,
           tarried
           there
           by
           the
           space
           of
           two
           moneths
           ;
           the
           second
           Cohort
           doing
           likewise
           as
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           the
           third
           as
           the
           second
           by
           their
           turns
           and
           courses
           ,
           and
           had
           a
           good
           allowance
           of
           money
           and
           victualls
           in
           the
           House
           or
           Court
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           who
           had
           his
           
             ministros
             nobiles
             qui
             in
             curio
             Regio
             vicissim
             commorabantur
             in
             pluribus
             ministrantes
             ministeriis
             ,
          
           noble
           and
           great
           Officers
           in
           his
           Court
           ,
           which
           attended
           in
           their
           courses
           ,
           and
           took
           so
           much
           care
           also
           for
           them
           as
           in
           his
           last
           Will
           and
           Testament
           he
           gave
           
             cuilibet
             Armigerorum
             suorum
          
           ,
           to
           every
           one
           of
           his
           Esquires
           100
           marks
           .
           
        
         
           Or
           that
           King
           
             Hardi
             Canutus
          
           caused
           his
           Tables
           to
           be
           spread
           four
           times
           every
           day
           ,
           and
           plentiously
           furnished
           with
           Cates
           ,
           and
           commanded
           that
           his
           Courtiers
           ,
           Servants
           ,
           and
           Guests
           should
           rather
           have
           superfluities
           then
           want
           any
           thing
           .
        
         
           That
           
             William
             Rufus
          
           when
           he
           had
           built
           Westminster
           Hall
           270
           foot
           in
           length
           ,
           and
           74
           in
           breadth
           ,
           
           thought
           it
           not
           large
           enough
           for
           a
           Dyning
           Room
           .
        
         
           King
           Richard
           the
           Second
           kept
           a
           most
           Royall
           Christmas
           where
           was
           every
           day
           spent
           26
           or
           28
           Oxen
           ,
           300
           Sheep
           ,
           with
           Fowl
           beyond
           number
           ;
           and
           to
           his
           Houshold
           came
           every
           day
           to
           meat
           ten
           thousand
           people
           .
           as
           appeared
           by
           the
           Messes
           told
           out
           from
           the
           Kitchin
           unto
           three
           hundred
           Servitors
           ,
           
           and
           was
           able
           about
           two
           years
           before
           ,
           when
           the
           Times
           began
           to
           be
           troublesome
           ,
           
           to
           give
           a
           Guard
           of
           4000
           Archers
           of
           Cheshire
           with
           their
           Bows
           bent
           ,
           and
           their
           Arrows
           hocked
           ready
           to
           shoot
           ,
           Bouche
           of
           Court
           ,
           to
           wit
           meat
           and
           drink
           ,
           and
           wages
           of
           six
           pence
           a
           day
           then
           accompted
           a
           very
           great
           pay
           .
        
         
           Or
           that
           King
           Henry
           the
           7
           th
           .
           then
           whom
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           England
           never
           had
           a
           more
           thrifty
           Prince
           ,
           did
           the
           morrow
           after
           Twefthtyde
           in
           a
           great
           Solemnity
           keep
           a
           Feast
           in
           Westminster
           Hall
           ,
           where
           he
           being
           set
           at
           a
           Table
           of
           Stone
           (
           which
           remained
           untill
           the
           middle
           of
           our
           late
           Rebellion
           )
           accompanyed
           with
           the
           Queen
           and
           many
           Embassadours
           and
           other
           Estates
           ,
           
           60
           Knights
           and
           Esquires
           served
           60
           Dishes
           to
           the
           Kings
           Mess
           ,
           and
           as
           many
           to
           the
           Queens
           ;
           and
           served
           the
           Lord
           Mayor
           of
           London
           at
           a
           Table
           where
           he
           was
           set
           with
           24
           dishes
           of
           meat
           to
           his
           Mess.
           
        
         
           And
           our
           succeeding
           Kings
           understood
           to
           be
           so
           much
           for
           the
           good
           and
           welfare
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           as
           King
           Edward
           the
           Sixth
           ,
           that
           great
           Blossome
           of
           prudence
           and
           piety
           ,
           and
           all
           manner
           of
           Princely
           virtues
           ,
           when
           a
           surfeit
           of
           Church
           Lands
           and
           Revenues
           ,
           had
           like
           the
           coal
           carried
           into
           the
           Eagles
           nest
           ,
           reduced
           the
           Royall
           Revenues
           into
           a
           consumptive
           and
           languishing
           condition
           ,
           had
           by
           the
           advice
           of
           his
           Privy
           Council
           suppressed
           (
           but
           with
           no
           advantage
           to
           the
           Revenue
           or
           curing
           the
           diseases
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           it
           then
           ,
           and
           hath
           since
           happened
           in
           many
           of
           those
           pretended
           rather
           then
           really
           effected
           dishonorable
           Espargnes
           ;
           
           witness
           the
           putting
           down
           of
           fourteen
           Tables
           at
           once
           by
           King
           Charles
           the
           Martyr
           ,
           which
           gained
           in
           one
           year
           Thirty
           thousand
           pounds
           to
           some
           few
           of
           his
           Officers
           ,
           who
           did
           advise
           him
           to
           do
           it
           ;
           but
           nothing
           at
           all
           for
           himself
           )
           the
           Tables
           formerly
           appointed
           for
           
             young
             Lords
             ,
             the
             Masters
             of
             Requests
             ,
          
           and
           
             Serjeants
             at
             Armes
             ,
             &c.
          
           he
           did
           not
           
           howsoever
           think
           fit
           to
           diminish
           or
           lessen
           any
           more
           of
           the
           Royall
           Hospitality
           .
        
         
           And
           King
           James
           when
           he
           had
           by
           an
           over-great
           bounty
           to
           his
           Countrymen
           the
           
             Craving
             Scots
          
           ,
           and
           their
           restless
           importunities
           ,
           brought
           himself
           and
           Revenue
           into
           many
           streights
           ,
           and
           was
           contented
           to
           seek
           out
           wayes
           of
           sparing
           ,
           did
           in
           the
           inquest
           and
           seeking
           to
           abate
           the
           charge
           of
           his
           housekeeping
           ,
           in
           his
           Letters
           to
           the
           Lords
           of
           the
           Councel
           ,
           bearing
           date
           in
           November
           1617.
           and
           pressing
           earnestly
           to
           have
           it
           done
           ,
           
           to
           the
           end
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           equall
           his
           charges
           to
           his
           Revenue
           ,
           direct
           them
           
             to
             abate
             superfluities
             in
             all
             things
             ,
             and
             multitudes
             of
             unnecessary
             Officers
             ,
             and
             to
             do
             things
             so
             as
             they
             might
             agree
             with
             his
             honor
          
           ;
           but
           concluded
           that
           
             there
             were
             twenty
             wayes
             of
             abatement
             besides
             the
             House
             ,
             if
             they
             be
             well
             looked
             into
             .
          
        
         
           Which
           may
           give
           us
           a
           Prospect
           ,
           which
           a
           larger
           Treatise
           of
           the
           
             Antiquitie
             ,
             legality
             ,
             reason
             ,
             duty
             ,
             and
             necessity
             of
             Prae-emption
             and
             Pourveyance
             for
             the
             King
             ,
             or
             Compositions
             for
             his
             Pourveyance
             ,
             as
             they
             were
             used
             and
             taken
             for
             the
             provision
             of
             the
             Kings
             Houshold
             ,
             the
             small
             charges
             and
             burden
             thereof
             to
             the
             People
             ,
             and
             many
             great
             mischiefs
             and
             inconveniences
             which
             will
             inevitably
             follow
             the
             taking
             of
             them
             away
             ,
          
           will
           more
           fully
           evidence
           how
           great
           a
           damage
           the
           King
           susteyneth
           by
           the
           want
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           How
           unbecoming
           the
           Majesty
           and
           Honor
           of
           a
           King
           and
           his
           many
           Princely
           affairs
           and
           occasions
           it
           will
           be
           that
           the
           people
           should
           deny
           him
           that
           granted
           or
           continueth
           their
           Profits
           in
           Fairs
           and
           Markets
           the
           benefit
           of
           Prae-emption
           ,
           which
           all
           Princes
           as
           well
           Christian
           as
           Heathen
           do
           enjoy
           ,
           and
           is
           but
           conformable
           to
           the
           Tenor
           and
           meaning
           of
           the
           
             Fifth
             Commandement
          
           in
           the
           Decalogue
           ,
           
           and
           the
           Honour
           due
           unto
           common
           Parents
           and
           Magistrates
           enjoyned
           thereby
           .
        
         
           How
           unsafe
           to
           the
           peoples
           consciences
           ,
           when
           they
           do
           by
           their
           Oathes
           of
           Allegeance
           and
           Supremacy
           swear
           to
           maintain
           and
           defend
           his
           Regall
           Rights
           and
           Jurisdictions
           not
           to
           allow
           his
           Prae-emption
           ,
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           
             or
             forecheapum
             ,
             and
             the
          
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           in
           the
           Saxon
           Times
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           signifying
           
             ante
             ,
             &
          
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           prendere
           ,
           which
           is
           Prae-emption
           ,
           and
           was
           then
           (
           as
           it
           hath
           been
           ever
           since
           )
           so
           just
           and
           legall
           a
           part
           of
           the
           Kings
           Prerogative
           ,
           as
           King
           Ina
           ,
           who
           reigned
           here
           in
           the
           year
           720.
           did
           by
           a
           Law
           prohibit
           ,
           
           that
           
             Fore
             fang
          
           ,
           or
           
             Captio
             obsoniorum
             in
             foris
             aut
             nundinis
             ,
             non
             ab
             aliquo
             fit
             priusquam
             minister
             Regis
             ea
             ceperit
             quae
             Regi
             fuerint
             necessaria
             ,
          
           the
           taking
           or
           buying
           of
           Houshold
           provisions
           by
           others
           in
           Fairs
           or
           Markets
           before
           the
           Kings
           Minister
           or
           Pourveyor
           should
           take
           those
           things
           which
           were
           necessary
           for
           the
           King.
           
        
         
           And
           was
           not
           then
           any
           Novel
           constitution
           ,
           or
           acquired
           Right
           or
           Praerogative
           ,
           or
           without
           a
           Divine
           pattern
           ,
           but
           so
           inhaerent
           in
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           Kingly
           Government
           ,
           and
           so
           becoming
           the
           duty
           and
           gratitude
           of
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           we
           may
           find
           the
           Vestigia
           ,
           or
           Tracs
           of
           it
           in
           the
           morning
           of
           the
           restored
           ,
           
           not
           long
           before
           drowned
           and
           washt
           world
           ,
           when
           Joseph
           that
           great
           and
           happy
           
             Minister
             of
             State
          
           under
           Pharaoh
           King
           of
           Egypt
           did
           by
           the
           help
           of
           that
           Royal
           Right
           of
           Praeemption
           ,
           keep
           the
           
             Lean
             Kine
          
           from
           eating
           up
           the
           Fat
           ,
           and
           save
           that
           Kingdome
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           neighbouring
           Nations
           from
           an
           irresistible
           famine
           and
           ruine
           .
        
         
           And
           how
           contrary
           it
           will
           be
           unto
           the
           duty
           of
           Subjects
           to
           refuse
           him
           their
           Carts
           to
           convey
           his
           Carriages
           ,
           unless
           they
           may
           have
           two
           parts
           in
           three
           more
           then
           formerly
           ,
           when
           the
           Earl
           of
           Rutland
           ,
           and
           Countess
           Dowager
           
           of
           Pembroke
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           of
           the
           Nobility
           have
           not
           only
           their
           Pourveyances
           ,
           but
           can
           have
           their
           Tenants
           Boon
           Carts
           upon
           any
           of
           their
           occasions
           for
           nothing
           ;
           and
           every
           Lord
           of
           a
           Manor
           ,
           or
           Parson
           of
           a
           Parish
           do
           seldom
           fail
           of
           as
           much
           or
           greater
           curtesies
           ,
           or
           respects
           from
           their
           Tenants
           ,
           or
           Parishioners
           ,
           or
           that
           the
           Kings
           Harbingers
           should
           from
           some
           of
           the
           Tribe
           of
           Naball
           receive
           uncivill
           and
           churlish
           answers
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           not
           to
           loose
           the
           advantage
           of
           
             six
             pence
          
           more
           which
           may
           be
           given
           by
           any
           other
           ,
           or
           that
           his
           Pourveyors
           should
           not
           have
           the
           benefit
           of
           Praeemption
           ,
           as
           one
           of
           them
           lately
           was
           refused
           in
           the
           buying
           of
           a
           Salmon
           ,
           or
           be
           wrangled
           with
           ;
           and
           have
           Fowl
           taken
           out
           of
           their
           hands
           ,
           as
           one
           lately
           did
           ,
           and
           when
           he
           was
           told
           it
           was
           for
           the
           King
           ,
           could
           say
           he
           cared
           not
           a
           turd
           for
           him
           ,
           or
           that
           his
           Officers
           should
           be
           exposed
           to
           the
           humours
           or
           incivilities
           of
           Clowns
           ,
           Quakers
           ,
           or
           disaffected
           persons
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           strangers
           who
           have
           commonly
           and
           usually
           seen
           forreign
           Princes
           travailing
           in
           any
           parts
           of
           Christendome
           out
           of
           their
           own
           Territories
           and
           Jurisdictions
           to
           be
           by
           a
           generall
           and
           never
           intermitted
           custome
           ,
           honourably
           and
           respectfully
           received
           in
           all
           Cities
           and
           Places
           of
           note
           ,
           and
           presented
           with
           Wine
           Fish
           ,
           and
           other
           provisions
           ;
           such
           as
           the
           place
           and
           season
           of
           the
           year
           afforded
           ,
           which
           even
           those
           Commonwealths
           ,
           States
           ,
           and
           Places
           of
           incivility
           ,
           Trade
           and
           selfishness
           ,
           such
           as
           Holland
           and
           Hamborough
           do
           never
           omit
           ,
           should
           see
           the
           King
           of
           Englands
           Servants
           and
           Officers
           so
           little
           respected
           in
           their
           attendance
           upon
           him
           in
           his
           Journeys
           ,
           or
           Progresses
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           be
           trusted
           with
           a
           small
           hire
           of
           a
           Cart
           ,
           unless
           like
           some
           beggars
           in
           the
           streets
           ,
           buying
           an
           halfpenny
           or
           a
           farthing
           worth
           of
           pottage
           at
           a
           Cooks
           Shop
           ,
           they
           do
           first
           lay
           down
           or
           pay
           their
           money
           for
           it
           .
        
         
         
           And
           how
           ungrateful
           it
           will
           be
           (
           if
           they
           were
           not
           Subjects
           or
           obliged
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           Nature
           and
           Nations
           to
           an
           obedience
           reverence
           ,
           retributions
           and
           oblations
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           to
           receive
           a
           daily
           and
           an
           hourly
           protection
           ,
           and
           as
           many
           benefits
           and
           blessings
           as
           their
           almost
           alwayes
           craving
           necessities
           and
           importunities
           can
           get
           or
           obtain
           ,
           or
           his
           munificent
           and
           ready
           heart
           and
           hand
           impart
           and
           bestow
           upon
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           be
           so
           barren
           in
           their
           retorns
           or
           thankfulness
           ,
           as
           when
           there
           is
           not
           a
           Family
           or
           Kinred
           in
           England
           ,
           but
           hath
           at
           one
           time
           or
           other
           been
           raised
           or
           enriched
           by
           the
           King
           or
           his
           Royall
           Progenitors
           ,
           or
           tasted
           of
           their
           favours
           or
           mercies
           ,
           and
           that
           those
           who
           did
           eat
           and
           partake
           of
           his
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           were
           maintained
           by
           them
           ,
           were
           for
           the
           most
           part
           their
           Sons
           and
           Daughters
           ,
           or
           some
           of
           their
           Kinred
           or
           Generations
           ,
           to
           deny
           him
           that
           which
           was
           such
           an
           antient
           and
           unquestionable
           Right
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           Judges
           of
           England
           did
           no
           longer
           agoe
           then
           the
           third
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           ,
           
           declare
           it
           to
           be
           a
           Prerogative
           of
           the
           King
           at
           the
           Common
           Law
           ,
           and
           was
           no
           less
           in
           the
           Times
           of
           our
           Saxon
           and
           British
           Monarchs
           ,
           and
           so
           much
           in
           use
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           as
           it
           doth
           yet
           retain
           the
           custome
           of
           Pourveyance
           
             ad
             alendum
             Proregis
             Familiam
          
           ,
           
           for
           the
           maintenance
           of
           the
           Lord
           Lieutenants
           House
           and
           Family
           ,
           as
           an
           
             antiquitus
             institutum
          
           ,
           an
           antient
           Constitution
           ,
           
             &
             Jus
             quoddam
             Majestatis
          
           ,
           
           a
           part
           of
           the
           Right
           belonging
           unto
           the
           Sovereign
           Prince
           and
           his
           Preheminence
           or
           Kingly
           Prerogative
           .
           And
           in
           their
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           lately
           made
           for
           the
           Settlement
           of
           that
           tossed
           and
           turmoild
           Kingdom
           ,
           consented
           that
           
             the
             Lord
             Chief-Justice
             of
             his
             Majesties
             Court
             of
             King-Bench
             ,
             the
             Lord
             Chief
             Baron
             of
             the
             Exchequer
             ,
             
             and
             the
             Master
             of
             the
             Rolls
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             of
             his
             Majesties
             Officers
             of
             that
             Kingdom
             for
             the
             time
             being
             ,
             shall
             and
             may
             have
             and
             receive
             such
             Port-Corn
             of
             the
             Rectories
             ,
             Impropriations
             or
             appropriate
             Tithes
             forfeited
             unto
             ,
             or
             vested
             in
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             his
             Heirs
             and
             Successors
             ,
             which
             have
             been
             formerly
             paid
             or
             reserved
             .
          
        
         
           The
           furnishing
           of
           Carriages
           and
           Ships
           for
           publick
           uses
           are
           in
           Scotland
           justly
           numbred
           amongst
           those
           Regalities
           which
           are
           annexed
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           
           and
           was
           by
           the
           consent
           of
           the
           Estates
           there
           so
           called
           ,
           allowed
           to
           conserve
           the
           dignity
           of
           that
           Kingdome
           the
           Borrough
           Mealis
           ,
           
           where
           
             quilibet
             Burgensis
             debet
             domino
             Regi
             pro
             Burgagio
             quinque
             denarios
             annuatìm
             &
             dicuntur
             incorporari
             annexique
             Fisco
             &
             Patrimonio
             Regis
             ,
          
           every
           Burgess
           is
           to
           pay
           five
           pence
           
             per
             annum
          
           for
           his
           Mealis
           ,
           which
           Sir
           
             Henry
             Spelman
          
           interprets
           to
           be
           a
           Farme
           appropriated
           to
           buy
           Provisions
           
             in
             Regiae
             mensae
             apparatum
          
           for
           the
           Kings
           Table
           or
           Houshold
           ,
           
           and
           are
           said
           to
           be
           incorporate
           and
           annexed
           to
           the
           Patrimony
           of
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Exchequer
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           right
           of
           Pourveyance
           so
           little
           there
           esteemed
           to
           be
           a
           grievance
           ,
           as
           in
           a
           Parliament
           of
           their
           King
           James
           the
           4
           th
           holden
           in
           the
           year
           1489.
           
           The
           Lords
           Spirituall
           and
           Temporall
           ,
           and
           other
           his
           Lieges
           ,
           
           did
           declare
           ,
           that
           it
           
             was
             the
             Kings
             property
             for
             the
             honourable
             sustentation
             of
             his
             house
             according
             to
             his
             Estait
             and
             Honour
             ,
             quhilk
             may
             not
             be
             failized
             without
             great
             derogation
             of
             his
             noble
             Estait
             ,
          
           and
           
             that
             his
             true
             Lieges
             suld
             above
             all
             singular
             and
             particular
             profit
             desire
             to
             preserve
             the
             noble
             Estait
             of
             his
             Excellence
             ,
             like
             as
             it
             was
             in
             the
             time
             of
             his
             maist
             noble
             Progenitors
             of
             gud
             mynd
             .
          
        
         
           And
           is
           conform
           unto
           that
           rule
           of
           reason
           which
           other
           Nations
           doe
           measure
           their
           Actions
           by
           ;
           for
           in
           
           France
           ,
           
           as
           
             Renatus
             Choppinus
          
           ,
           a
           learned
           French
           Advocat
           ,
           saith
           it
           is
           
             Dominicum
             jus
             primitus
             sceptris
             addictum
             in
             necessarios
             Regiae
             mensae
             Aulaeque
             sumptus
             &
             honorificum
             ad
             suum
             Imperii
             &
             inclitae
             decus
             Majestatis
             conservandum
             ,
          
           a
           part
           of
           the
           Demeasnes
           belonging
           and
           annexed
           to
           the
           Royall
           Scepter
           ,
           and
           appropriate
           to
           the
           necessary
           uses
           and
           provisions
           of
           the
           Kings
           Court
           ,
           and
           Houshold
           for
           the
           honor
           and
           conservation
           of
           the
           Rights
           of
           Majesty
           .
        
         
           Our
           long
           agoe
           old
           and
           worthy
           Ancestors
           ,
           the
           stout
           hearted
           Germans
           ,
           
           did
           as
           
             Tacitus
             sua
             sponte
             &
             ex
             more
             viritìm
             conferre
             principibus
             armenta
             vel
             fruges
             quae
             pro
             honore
             accepta
             necessitatibus
             subvenirent
             ,
          
           man
           by
           man
           of
           their
           own
           accord
           customarily
           bring
           or
           send
           unto
           their
           Princes
           Herds
           of
           Cattle
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           the
           fruits
           of
           the
           earth
           as
           Presents
           and
           Oblations
           ,
           which
           being
           taken
           for
           an
           Honour
           due
           unto
           them
           ,
           did
           much
           conduce
           unto
           the
           defraying
           of
           their
           charges
           or
           necessityes
           :
           the
           people
           of
           Italy
           and
           the
           Princes
           and
           Nobility
           thereof
           did
           acknowledge
           them
           to
           be
           
             inter
             Regalia
          
           amongst
           the
           Regalities
           of
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           
           and
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Empire
           ,
           formerly
           of
           Rome
           ,
           now
           of
           Germany
           ,
           doth
           strongly
           assert
           the
           
             Praestationes
             Angariarum
             Plaustrorum
             &
             Navium
          
           ,
           
           &c.
           
           Pourveyance
           of
           Cart-taking
           ,
           and
           impresting
           of
           Ships
           
             Regi
             competere
             ratione
             excellent●ae
             ejus
             dignitatis
             quae
             Regalia
             dicuntur
             ,
          
           to
           belong
           unto
           the
           King
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           excellency
           of
           his
           dignity
           ,
           
             Et
             multa
             adjumentaei
             necessaria
             ut
             dominium
             intus
             &
             externè
             tueri
             valeat
             ,
          
           
           and
           that
           many
           ayds
           and
           helps
           are
           necessary
           for
           a
           Prince
           to
           defend
           his
           Dominions
           at
           home
           as
           well
           as
           abroad
           .
           And
           is
           as
           much
           a
           Custome
           of
           Nations
           ,
           as
           covering
           of
           the
           head
           ,
           washing
           the
           hands
           ,
           wearing
           of
           shoes
           ,
           and
           retiring
           to
           rest
           or
           sleep
           in
           the
           
           night
           ,
           &
           so
           usual
           as
           the
           Barbarians
           ,
           some
           of
           whom
           have
           not
           so
           much
           good
           nature
           as
           to
           diswade
           them
           from
           selling
           their
           Children
           ,
           like
           Calves
           or
           Cattle
           at
           a
           Market
           ,
           or
           the
           savage
           part
           of
           the
           Heathen
           ,
           who
           have
           not
           attained
           to
           so
           much
           of
           reason
           ,
           as
           to
           perswade
           them
           the
           use
           of
           clothes
           and
           apparrel
           ,
           are
           glad
           their
           Kings
           and
           Princes
           will
           accept
           of
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           that
           large
           Empire
           of
           Japan
           ,
           
           who
           in
           many
           of
           their
           Nationall
           Customes
           and
           Actions
           ,
           do
           delight
           to
           be
           contrary
           to
           the
           people
           of
           Europe
           ,
           and
           most
           other
           Nations
           ,
           as
           to
           have
           their
           Teeth
           black
           ,
           when
           others
           doe
           desire
           to
           have
           them
           white
           ;
           doe
           mount
           their
           horses
           on
           the
           right
           side
           ;
           and
           not
           uncover
           their
           heads
           in
           saluting
           each
           other
           ,
           but
           only
           unty
           some
           part
           of
           their
           Shoes
           and
           Sandals
           ,
           and
           sit
           down
           when
           others
           do
           come
           to
           salute
           them
           ,
           are
           notwithstanding
           unwilling
           to
           come
           behind
           other
           Nations
           in
           the
           Duty
           of
           Pourveyance
           and
           Honour
           of
           their
           Prince
           ,
        
         
           Practised
           &
           allowed
           by
           many
           approved
           examples
           in
           the
           sacred
           Volumes
           ,
           where
           Melchizedeck
           King
           of
           Salem
           ,
           
           the
           Priest
           of
           the
           most
           high
           God
           ,
           
             brought
             forth
             bread
             and
             wine
          
           to
           Abraham
           ,
           and
           his
           houshold
           Servants
           in
           their
           little
           Army
           upon
           their
           return
           from
           the
           rescue
           of
           the
           righteous
           Lot
           ,
           which
           was
           ,
           saith
           the
           great
           Grotius
           ,
           a
           Custome
           then
           in
           use
           amongst
           the
           neighbour
           Nations
           :
           
           that
           of
           Jesse
           the
           Father
           of
           David
           ,
           who
           being
           commanded
           by
           Saul
           his
           King
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           not
           in
           the
           Army
           ,
           but
           enjoyed
           the
           blessings
           of
           peace
           ,
           to
           send
           David
           his
           Son
           unto
           him
           ,
           
             laded
             an
             Asse
             with
             bread
             and
             a
             bottle
             of
             wine
             ,
             and
             a
             Kid
             ,
          
           and
           sent
           them
           by
           David
           unto
           Saul
           ;
           and
           not
           long
           after
           sending
           him
           into
           the
           Army
           to
           visit
           his
           Brethren
           ,
           commanded
           him
           to
           take
           an
           Ephah
           ,
           and
           
           
           
             ten
             loaves
          
           ,
           and
           carry
           them
           
             into
             the
             Camp
             unto
             his
             Brethren
             ,
          
           and
           
             ten
             Cheeses
             unto
             the
             Captains
             of
             their
             Thousand
             .
          
        
         
           The
           worst
           of
           women
           ,
           the
           Witch
           of
           Endor
           made
           hast
           to
           kill
           her
           
             fat
             Calfe
          
           ,
           
           
             took
             flower
             ,
             and
             kneaded
             it
             .
             baked
             unleavened
             bread
             ,
             and
             caused
          
           Saul
           
             and
             his
             Servants
             to
             eat
          
           .
        
         
           The
           Moabites
           who
           were
           Davids
           Subjects
           ,
           after
           he
           was
           King
           ,
           
           sent
           him
           gifts
           
             pro
             pace
             ac
             tutela
          
           ,
           as
           gratifications
           for
           their
           peace
           and
           protection
           ,
           and
           continued
           and
           paid
           it
           unto
           the
           Kings
           of
           Israel
           ,
           untill
           after
           the
           Reign
           of
           Ahab
           King
           of
           Israel
           ,
           
           
             Shobi
             Machir
          
           ,
           and
           Barzillai
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           his
           afflictions
           by
           the
           Rebellion
           of
           his
           Son
           Absolom
           ,
           sent
           victualls
           and
           provisions
           to
           him
           and
           his
           Army
           ,
           
           the
           dutifull
           and
           honest-hearted
           Araunah
           would
           rather
           give
           him
           his
           Oxen
           to
           sacrifice
           ,
           then
           take
           mony
           for
           them
           :
           the
           Sunamitish
           woman
           would
           in
           honour
           and
           respect
           unto
           Elisha
           the
           Prophet
           ,
           not
           only
           constrain
           him
           to
           eat
           bread
           ,
           but
           advised
           her
           Husband
           to
           
             make
             a
             little
             Chamber
             in
             the
             Wall
             ,
             and
             set
             for
             him
             there
             a
             Bed
             ,
          
           
           
             a
             Table
             ,
             and
             a
             Stool
             ,
             and
             a
             Candlestick
             ,
             to
             the
             end
             that
             when
             he
             passed
             that
             way
             ,
             he
             might
             turn
             in
             thither
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Moabites
           having
           after
           the
           destruction
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           Israel
           discontinued
           their
           Pourveyance
           ,
           were
           in
           the
           judgements
           denounced
           against
           them
           for
           their
           pride
           exhorted
           by
           the
           Prophet
           Isaiah
           to
           an
           obedience
           ,
           
           and
           to
           
             send
             the
             Lamb
             (
             viz.
          
           that
           Pourveyance
           )
           
             to
             the
             Ruler
             of
             the
             Land
             ,
          
           which
           was
           Ezechiah
           King
           of
           Juda
           ,
           the
           lawfull
           Heir
           of
           King
           David
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           Children
           of
           Israel
           and
           Juda
           ,
           after
           a
           return
           from
           a
           long
           and
           a
           sorrowfull
           captivity
           ,
           could
           not
           when
           they
           bare
           burdens
           ,
           and
           wrought
           with
           one
           hand
           ,
           and
           
           held
           a
           weapon
           with
           the
           other
           ,
           in
           their
           building
           and
           repair
           of
           Jerusalem
           ,
           forget
           the
           custome
           of
           Pourveyance
           for
           the
           good
           Nehemiah
           their
           righteous
           Captain
           and
           Governour
           .
           
        
         
           Which
           might
           induce
           the
           people
           of
           England
           to
           cover
           their
           faces
           with
           shame
           ,
           and
           blush
           through
           that
           thin-leafed
           Mask
           of
           a
           Recompence
           by
           the
           Excise
           ,
           supposed
           to
           be
           given
           in
           Exchange
           thereof
           ,
           when
           they
           can
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           whilest
           they
           denyed
           it
           to
           the
           King
           believe
           that
           the
           Pensions
           and
           Payments
           in
           Universities
           ,
           Colleges
           ,
           &
           Innes
           of
           Court
           &
           Chancery
           ,
           for
           the
           honor
           of
           their
           Societies
           ,
           and
           defraying
           of
           charges
           ordinary
           or
           extraordinary
           .
           The
           assistance
           or
           supports
           which
           the
           Lord
           Mayor
           of
           London
           ,
           the
           Companies
           or
           Guilds
           of
           Trades
           therein
           ,
           the
           Magistrates
           of
           every
           City
           ,
           Burrough
           ,
           or
           Corporation
           ;
           and
           Church-wardens
           of
           every
           Parish
           ,
           do
           by
           permission
           of
           him
           and
           his
           Laws
           exact
           and
           enforce
           for
           the
           credit
           or
           worship
           of
           their
           Societies
           and
           their
           maintenance
           and
           affairs
           one
           under
           another
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           another
           to
           be
           as
           legall
           as
           they
           are
           necessary
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           dignified
           Clergie
           ,
           as
           Arch-Bishops
           ,
           
           Bishops
           ,
           Arch-Deacons
           ,
           Deans
           ,
           Prebends
           ,
           and
           Canons
           ,
           many
           of
           whom
           do
           enjoy
           Commendams
           ,
           and
           Prebends
           ,
           and
           yearly
           receive
           Pensions
           (
           some
           of
           which
           were
           for
           superstitious
           uses
           )
           Synodals
           ,
           Procurations
           ,
           money
           for
           
             Proxies
             ,
             Cathedratica
             Quarta's
             ,
             Episcopales
             Corredies
             ,
          
           
           or
           Entertainment-money
           ,
           
             Penticostalia
             ,
             Waxscot
          
           ,
           or
           
             Cyrick
             sceat
          
           ,
           which
           in
           some
           places
           was
           recompenced
           by
           the
           yearly
           Tribute
           of
           Hens
           ,
           or
           some
           other
           houshold
           provisions
           ;
           and
           in
           many
           places
           do
           receive
           the
           long
           since
           abolished
           Romescot
           ,
           or
           Peter-pence
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           Emoluments
           ,
           and
           the
           inferiour
           part
           of
           the
           Clergy
           their
           
           Mortuaries
           yearly
           Oblations
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           Profits
           and
           Free-will
           Offerings
           towards
           their
           Hospitalityes
           and
           Housekeeping
           .
        
         
           And
           many
           of
           the
           Laity
           can
           think
           it
           reasonable
           by
           privileges
           of
           some
           Religious-houses
           whereof
           their
           Lands
           before
           they
           were
           granted
           unto
           them
           by
           the
           Kings
           Royall
           Progenitors
           were
           parcell
           to
           pay
           in
           many
           places
           no
           Tythes
           at
           all
           ,
           and
           in
           as
           many
           or
           more
           do
           claim
           and
           receive
           the
           benefit
           of
           a
           
             Modus
             decimandi
          
           ,
           or
           paying
           a
           small
           rate
           or
           proportion
           for
           them
           ▪
           and
           in
           their
           own
           Leases
           and
           Grants
           ,
           not
           only
           in
           former
           ages
           ,
           but
           lately
           find
           it
           to
           be
           most
           for
           their
           benefit
           ,
           to
           reserve
           as
           a
           convenience
           for
           their
           housekeeping
           ,
           as
           their
           Ancestors
           or
           Predecessors
           formerly
           did
           their
           duties
           of
           work
           in
           Harvest
           ,
           or
           payment
           of
           Muttons
           and
           Poultry
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           can
           retain
           their
           Rights
           of
           Patronage
           and
           Advowsons
           ,
           
           take
           and
           receive
           Herriots
           ,
           which
           were
           
             gratuitae
             donationes
             domino
             suo
             datas
             ratione
             dominii
             ,
             &
             reverentiae
             ,
          
           the
           gifts
           or
           remunerations
           of
           Tenants
           to
           their
           Lords
           in
           the
           reverence
           or
           respect
           which
           they
           do
           bear
           unto
           them
           ,
           after
           the
           rate
           of
           4
           or
           5
           l
           a
           Cow
           ,
           many
           times
           the
           only
           remaining
           substance
           of
           a
           sorrowfull
           Widow
           and
           Fatherless
           Children
           ,
           when
           the
           price
           of
           an
           Oxe
           was
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           First
           ,
           and
           many
           years
           after
           but
           5
           s.
           or
           an
           eighth
           or
           tenth
           part
           of
           it
           .
           Reliefs
           and
           Chiefage
           ,
           which
           Cowell
           understands
           to
           be
           
             pecuniae
             annuò
             datae
             potentiori
             tutelae
             patrociniique
             gratiae
          
           ;
           and
           the
           Tolls
           in
           Fairs
           and
           Markets
           ,
           by
           his
           Grants
           ,
           or
           by
           Prescription
           ,
           
           or
           allowance
           (
           which
           do
           in
           yearly
           profit
           twice
           or
           thrice
           over
           exceed
           the
           charge
           of
           the
           Counties
           or
           Cities
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           towards
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Provision
           of
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Houshold
           ,
           and
           the
           Owners
           of
           above
           three
           thousand
           and
           eight
           hundred
           Impropriations
           
           which
           originally
           were
           designed
           for
           hospitality
           ,
           can
           require
           and
           receive
           Pensions
           ,
           Synodals
           ,
           Procurations
           ,
           Proxie-money
           ,
           and
           Waxscot
           money
           .
        
         
           And
           very
           many
           of
           the
           Laity
           yearly
           demand
           and
           receive
           
             Romescot
             ,
             Peter
             pence
          
           ,
           or
           Chimney-money
           of
           their
           Tenants
           in
           some
           Manors
           ,
           amounting
           unto
           a
           considerable
           value
           ,
           which
           notwithstanding
           that
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           25
           H.
           8.
           ca.
           21.
           it
           be
           forbidden
           under
           severe
           penalties
           to
           be
           paid
           any
           more
           to
           the
           Popes
           use
           ,
           have
           since
           either
           by
           ignorance
           of
           their
           Tenants
           ,
           or
           a
           custome
           of
           paying
           it
           to
           the
           Lords
           of
           such
           Manors
           ,
           or
           their
           Stewards
           or
           Bayliffs
           ,
           been
           collected
           or
           gathered
           to
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Lords
           of
           those
           Manors
           ,
           &
           be
           very
           industrious
           in
           the
           enforcing
           the
           payment
           of
           Street-gavel
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           First
           was
           claimed
           by
           the
           Lord
           of
           the
           Manour
           of
           Cholmton
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Sussex
           ,
           for
           every
           Tenants
           going
           out
           of
           the
           Manor
           ,
           or
           returning
           unto
           it
           :
           and
           in
           many
           or
           some
           of
           their
           Manors
           do
           receive
           Quit-rents
           of
           their
           Tenants
           for
           Bordland
           ,
           or
           provisions
           of
           victuals
           for
           their
           houses
           ;
           Drofland
           ,
           
           for
           driving
           their
           Cattle
           to
           Fairs
           and
           Markets
           ;
           Berland
           ,
           carrying
           provision
           of
           victuals
           upon
           the
           removall
           of
           the
           Lord
           of
           the
           Manor
           ,
           or
           his
           Steward
           ;
           
             Potura
             drinklan
          
           ,
           or
           
             Scot
             Ale
          
           ,
           
           a
           Contribution
           of
           Tenants
           towards
           a
           Potation
           drink
           ,
           or
           an
           Ale
           provided
           to
           entertain
           the
           Lord
           or
           his
           Steward
           (
           those
           charges
           being
           now
           defrayed
           by
           the
           Lords
           of
           the
           Manors
           )
           Cart-silver
           ,
           Ward-penies
           ,
           and
           Hoke-Tuesday
           mony
           (
           for
           a
           liberty
           probably
           of
           giving
           their
           Tenants
           or
           Bond-men
           leave
           to
           celebrate
           that
           day
           wherein
           the
           English
           did
           every
           where
           slay
           the
           Domineering
           Gavel-Corn
           ,
           Gavel-Malt
           ,
           Rent-honey
           ,
           Oate-Gavel
           ,
           or
           Rent
           Oates
           ,
           Woodlede
           ,
           for
           carrying
           home
           the
           Lords
           wood
           ;
           Hidage
           ,
           or
           an
           Arbitrary
           Tax
           imposed
           
           upon
           every
           Hide
           of
           their
           Tenants
           Lands
           ,
           afterwards
           turned
           into
           an
           yearly
           payment
           ;
           Gavel-Foder
           ,
           for
           Litter
           ,
           Hay
           ,
           and
           Provender
           for
           his
           horses
           ,
           paying
           of
           certain
           Cows
           ,
           
           or
           a
           rate
           for
           them
           ,
           
             quae
             dari
             solebant
             pro
             capitibus
             Utlagatorum
             ,
          
           to
           redeem
           the
           forfeitu●e
           of
           Outlaws
           ;
           Gavel
           or
           Rent-timber
           for
           the
           Repair
           of
           the
           Lords
           house
           ;
           Gavel
           Dung
           to
           carry
           his
           Dung
           ;
           Horse
           or
           Foot
           Average
           ,
           carrying
           of
           the
           Lords
           Corn
           to
           Markets
           and
           Fairs
           ;
           or
           of
           his
           domestique
           utensils
           ,
           Smith-land
           ,
           for
           doing
           the
           Smiths
           work
           ;
           Gavel-erth
           ,
           for
           t●lling
           some
           part
           of
           the
           Ground
           ;
           
             Gavel
             Rip
          
           ,
           to
           help
           to
           reap
           their
           Corn
           by
           one
           or
           more
           dayes
           ;
           
             Gavel
             Rod
          
           ,
           to
           help
           to
           make
           so
           many
           Pearches
           of
           Hedge
           ;
           
             Gavel
             Swine
          
           ,
           for
           feeding
           of
           Swine
           in
           the
           Lords
           Woods
           ;
           Carropera
           ,
           to
           work
           with
           their
           Carts
           or
           Carriages
           :
           Ale-silver
           in
           the
           City
           of
           
             London
             ;
             Were
             Gavel
          
           ,
           in
           respect
           of
           Wears
           and
           Kiddles
           to
           catch
           Fish
           ,
           besides
           (
           which
           some
           have
           not
           long
           ago
           valued
           in
           the
           sale
           of
           their
           Manors
           )
           many
           Boons
           ,
           Presents
           ,
           and
           New-years-gifts
           ,
           and
           other
           Retributions
           yearly
           given
           to
           Landlords
           or
           Lords
           of
           Manors
           ,
           in
           lieu
           of
           their
           Pourveyance
           ,
           who
           paying
           for
           it
           one
           to
           another
           ,
           do
           receive
           and
           take
           Fines
           incertain
           at
           farre
           greater
           rates
           then
           antiently
           they
           were
           ,
           and
           many
           times
           so
           unreasonably
           as
           the
           King
           in
           his
           Superiour
           Courts
           of
           Justice
           is
           many
           times
           enforced
           to
           regulate
           and
           reduce
           them
           to
           a
           moderation
           ;
           and
           can
           also
           receive
           many
           other
           small
           yearly
           payments
           paid
           by
           Tenants
           in
           acknowledgement
           of
           favours
           or
           help
           received
           ,
           or
           to
           be
           received
           ;
           and
           demand
           and
           receive
           Quit-rents
           for
           
             Common
             Fines
          
           of
           some
           Hundreds
           ,
           and
           for
           Fines
           
             pro
             non
             pulchre
             placitando
          
           ,
           or
           pleading
           in
           their
           Courts
           so
           fair
           as
           they
           ought
           ,
           prohibited
           to
           be
           taken
           by
           several
           Statutes
           made
           in
           the
           reigns
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           3
           d.
           
           and
           Edward
           the
           Third
           ;
           receive
           in
           some
           places
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           Counties
           of
           
             Cumberland
             ,
             Westmerland
          
           ,
           and
           some
           other
           Northern
           Counties
           a
           20
           penny
           Fine
           ▪
           and
           in
           Wales
           a
           Payment
           or
           Oblation
           called
           Mises
           ,
           upon
           the
           death
           or
           change
           of
           every
           Landlord
           ;
           and
           be
           at
           the
           same
           time
           unwilling
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           should
           have
           any
           retributions
           or
           acknowledgements
           for
           one
           hundred
           to
           one
           favours
           and
           helps
           not
           seldome
           ,
           but
           very
           often
           ;
           nor
           to
           some
           or
           a
           few
           particular
           men
           ,
           but
           to
           very
           many
           ,
           and
           the
           universality
           of
           all
           his
           Subjects
           .
        
         
           Be
           well
           contented
           that
           he
           should
           have
           no
           bette●
           a
           Bargain
           to
           release
           their
           Duties
           of
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           ,
           Knight-service
           and
           Pourveyance
           ,
           which
           would
           have
           yielded
           and
           saved
           him
           at
           least
           
             Two
             hundred
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
             ,
          
           besides
           the
           vast
           yearly
           charge
           of
           a
           great
           part
           of
           his
           Guards
           ,
           much
           whereof
           might
           be
           spared
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           ,
           as
           his
           Royal
           Progenitors
           had
           ,
           the
           benefit
           ,
           support
           ,
           and
           accommodation
           of
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           ,
           and
           by
           Knights-service
           ,
           which
           were
           so
           greatly
           &
           very
           necessary
           in
           the
           honour
           and
           incidents
           thereof
           ,
           to
           the
           exercise
           of
           a
           just
           and
           well
           regulated
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           Royall
           Governments
           ;
           and
           more
           advantagious
           then
           the
           decaying
           and
           every
           day
           diminishing
           Revenue
           of
           that
           Moyety
           of
           the
           Excise
           ,
           which
           half
           or
           moiety
           from
           the
           time
           of
           the
           granting
           thereof
           ,
           untill
           the
           last
           year
           ,
           did
           yearly
           yield
           unto
           him
           but
           
             One
             hundred
             thousand
             and
             ten
             pounds
             ,
          
           or
           thereabouts
           ;
           and
           for
           this
           last
           year
           but
           
             One
             hundred
             thirty
             and
             three
             thousand
             pounds
          
           Sterling
           or
           thereabouts
           ;
           (
           out
           of
           which
           ,
           the
           Salaries
           &
           allowan●●
           unto
           the
           Commissioners
           ,
           Auditors
           ,
           and
           Surveyors
           ,
           &c.
           and
           many
           other
           defalcations
           are
           to
           be
           deducted
           )
           attended
           with
           the
           daily
           discontents
           of
           the
           Common
           people
           ,
           and
           as
           a
           Fine
           and
           Income
           for
           that
           so
           greatly
           prejudiciall
           and
           inconvenient
           
           Bargain
           ,
           release
           and
           abate
           unto
           the
           people
           more
           then
           a
           Million
           and
           
             a
             half
          
           Sterling
           mony
           due
           unto
           him
           for
           the
           Arrears
           of
           the
           profits
           of
           his
           Wardships
           and
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           ,
           and
           by
           Knight-service
           ;
           and
           for
           the
           Arrears
           of
           his
           Pourveyance
           after
           the
           rate
           of
           
             Thirty
             five
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           charges
           to
           the
           people
           ,
           
             six
             hundred
             and
             fifty
             thousand
             pounds
          
           Sterling
           ;
           and
           if
           the
           charge
           thereof
           shall
           be
           deemed
           to
           amount
           unto
           
             Fifty
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           ;
           may
           without
           any
           stretching
           of
           the
           accompt
           ,
           be
           very
           justly
           reckoned
           to
           be
           no
           less
           then
           
             Nine
             hundred
             and
             fifty
             thousand
             pounds
          
           sterling
           .
        
         
           And
           take
           notwithstanding
           (
           as
           his
           blessed
           Father
           did
           ,
           the
           profits
           of
           his
           Wards
           after
           a
           tenth
           part
           of
           the
           true
           yearly
           value
           of
           the
           Lands
           and
           his
           Ayds
           to
           make
           his
           eldest
           Son
           a
           Knight
           ,
           and
           to
           marry
           his
           eldest
           Daughter
           ,
           which
           the
           
             Socage
             Tenures
          
           are
           likewise
           obliged
           unto
           at
           a
           very
           low
           and
           easie
           proportion
           )
           very
           many
           of
           his
           Reliefs
           after
           the
           rate
           which
           the
           value
           and
           Rent
           of
           Lands
           were
           at
           
             four
             hundred
             years
          
           agoe
           ,
           now
           that
           they
           exceed
           it
           Fifteen
           or
           Twenty
           times
           more
           in
           value
           then
           they
           were
           then
           ;
           his
           Subsidies
           and
           Fifteens
           
             secundum
             antiquam
             taxationem
          
           ,
           after
           the
           old
           and
           long
           ago
           accustomed
           old
           rates
           with
           considerations
           and
           abatements
           to
           be
           made
           in
           respect
           of
           Debts
           ▪
           Children
           ,
           and
           weakness
           of
           Estates
           ,
           when
           as
           the
           rates
           in
           every
           Parish
           ,
           for
           the
           maintenance
           of
           the
           Poor
           ,
           mending
           of
           High-wayes
           ,
           repairing
           the
           Church
           ,
           payment
           of
           Tythes
           for
           Pas●ure-groun●s
           ,
           o●
           upon
           any
           other
           their
           Parochiall
           Duties
           ,
           or
           occasions
           ,
           are
           made
           and
           layd
           by
           the
           people
           themselves
           ,
           and
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           by
           the
           Pound
           rate
           ,
           as
           they
           call
           it
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           utmost
           yearly
           value
           ,
           and
           improvement
           ,
           or
           very
           near
           it
           .
        
         
         
           Receive
           his
           First-fruits
           and
           Tenths
           at
           great
           undervalues
           ,
           
             Prae-fines
             ,
             Post-fines
             ,
             Lycenses
             and
             Pardons
             of
             Alienation
          
           at
           less
           then
           a
           Tenth
           .
           Take
           no
           more
           for
           the
           Fees
           of
           his
           Seals
           in
           Chancery
           ,
           and
           the
           Courts
           of
           Kings
           Bench
           and
           Common
           Pleas
           ,
           then
           as
           they
           were
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Third
           ,
           (
           now
           that
           every
           peny
           which
           was
           then
           ,
           is
           more
           in
           value
           then
           three
           )
           and
           for
           the
           originall
           and
           Judiciall
           Writs
           in
           Wales
           no
           more
           then
           they
           were
           in
           he
           34
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Eighth
           ;
           his
           Fines
           upon
           Formedons
           and
           Reall
           Actions
           ,
           his
           Customes
           inward
           and
           outward
           at
           gentle
           and
           undervalued
           rates
           ,
           allowing
           the
           Merchants
           notwithstanding
           a
           Twelfth
           part
           of
           their
           Wines
           ,
           a
           Fifth
           of
           all
           other
           Commodities
           imported
           ,
           and
           a
           Tenth
           of
           all
           that
           is
           exported
           ,
           most
           of
           which
           particulars
           ,
           in
           his
           so
           daily
           accustomed
           and
           continued
           favours
           seperately
           and
           singly
           considered
           ,
           would
           either
           out-goe
           ,
           or
           come
           very
           near
           up
           unto
           the
           charges
           which
           the
           Kingdom
           did
           yearly
           expend
           ,
           and
           disburse
           for
           or
           towards
           the
           Royall
           Pourveyance
           :
           Allow●
           three
           or
           
             four
             pounds
          
           in
           every
           Pipe
           of
           Wine
           for
           Lekage
           :
           takes
           for
           his
           prisage
           of
           Wines
           brought
           into
           London
           for
           his
           two
           Pipes
           of
           Wine
           one
           before
           ,
           and
           another
           behind
           the
           Mast
           in
           every
           Ship
           of
           every
           Freeman
           ,
           being
           an
           Housekeeper
           of
           that
           large
           and
           largely
           privileged
           City
           ,
           but
           
             seven
             pounds
             ten
             shillings
          
           for
           every
           Pipe
           of
           Wine
           ,
           which
           is
           seldome
           less
           worth
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           Sack
           ,
           then
           
             thirty
             pound
          
           a
           Pipe
           ,
           or
           
             four
             and
             twenty
             pounds
          
           a
           Pipe
           if
           it
           be
           Claret
           .
           And
           give●
           B●lls
           of
           Store
           to
           multitudes
           which
           have
           occasion
           to
           pass
           or
           repass
           (
           which
           is
           not
           seldome
           )
           into
           or
           out
           of
           the
           parts
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           ,
           for
           their
           Trunks
           and
           other
           necessaries
           to
           be
           Custome-free
           .
        
         
           Allows
           and
           permits
           the
           Dukes
           ,
           Marquesses
           and
           〈◊〉
           
           to
           enjoy
           their
           Creation
           money
           towards
           the
           supportation
           of
           their
           honour
           ;
           and
           they
           as
           well
           as
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           and
           all
           or
           many
           of
           the
           Gentry
           to
           enjoy
           great
           quantities
           of
           his
           Crown
           Lands
           ,
           turned
           from
           small
           and
           easie
           old-fashion'd
           Reserved
           Rents
           upon
           Leases
           for
           Lives
           or
           years
           into
           Estates
           of
           Inheritance
           ;
           and
           very
           many
           Liberties
           ,
           as
           Fishings
           ,
           Free-Warrens
           ,
           Court-Leets
           ,
           Court-Barons
           ,
           Eschetes
           ,
           Felons
           ,
           Fugitives
           and
           Outlaws
           Goods
           ,
           Deodands
           ,
           Forfeitures
           ,
           Waiss
           Estraies
           ,
           Fines
           &
           Amerciaments
           ,
           retorn
           and
           execution
           of
           Writs
           ;
           and
           in
           some
           Manors
           ,
           a
           liberty
           of
           receiving
           to
           their
           own
           use
           Fines
           for
           licenses
           of
           concord
           or
           agreement
           upon
           the
           making
           of
           Conveyances
           ,
           and
           Post-Fines
           upon
           Fines
           leavied
           in
           the
           Kings
           Courts
           ,
           Profits
           of
           the
           year
           ,
           day
           ,
           and
           wast
           ,
           and
           all
           Fines
           ,
           Issues
           Amerciaments
           ▪
           returned
           ,
           set
           or
           imposed
           upon
           any
           of
           their
           Tenants
           in
           any
           of
           the
           Kings
           Courts
           ,
           
           or
           by
           any
           Justices
           of
           Assize
           ,
           or
           of
           the
           Peace
           .
        
         
           With
           many
           other
           Franchises
           ,
           Liberties
           and
           Participations
           of
           his
           Regality
           ,
           which
           they
           do
           now
           enjoy
           
             tanquam
             Reguli
          
           as
           little
           Kings
           in
           their
           several
           Estates
           and
           Dominions
           ,
           in
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           more
           by
           claim
           and
           prescription
           ,
           allowed
           by
           the
           favour
           and
           indulgence
           of
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Royal
           Progenitors
           and
           Predecessors
           Kings
           and
           Queens
           of
           of
           this
           Nation
           ,
           unto
           them
           and
           their
           Posterities
           ,
           then
           by
           any
           any
           Grants
           they
           can
           shew
           for
           it
           ,
           very
           much
           exceeding
           in
           yearly
           profit
           and
           con●ent
           ,
           the
           small
           charges
           which
           they
           have
           used
           to
           have
           been
           at
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Provisions
           for
           the
           Kings
           Houshold
           .
        
         
           Take
           his
           Fee-farme
           Rents
           which
           do
           amount
           unto
           above
           
             threescore
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           ;
           but
           according
           to
           their
           first
           and
           primitive
           small
           reservation
           ,
           though
           the
           Lands
           thereof
           be
           now
           improved
           ,
           and
           
           raised
           in
           some
           a
           ten
           ,
           and
           in
           others
           a
           twelve
           to
           one
           mo●e
           then
           they
           were
           then
           accompted
           to
           be
           either
           in
           the
           intentions
           of
           the
           Donors
           or
           Donees
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           his
           Fee-Farmes
           of
           some
           casuall
           Profits
           ,
           and
           Revenues
           granted
           to
           Cities
           and
           Corporations
           ,
           which
           do
           now
           ten
           to
           one
           exceed
           what
           they
           were
           when
           they
           were
           first
           granted
           .
        
         
           Grant
           and
           confirme
           to
           the
           Vulgus
           or
           Common
           people
           many
           great
           immunities
           and
           Priviledges
           ,
           as
           Assart
           Lands
           ,
           and
           permit
           them
           to
           enjoy
           in
           his
           own
           Lands
           and
           Revenue
           large
           Common
           of
           Pasture
           ,
           and
           Common
           of
           Estovers
           and
           Turbary
           in
           his
           Forrests
           and
           Chaces
           ;
           and
           protect
           from
           oppression
           in
           that
           which
           are
           holden
           of
           their
           Mesne
           Lords
           ,
           their
           Copihold
           Lands
           ,
           Customes
           and
           Estates
           ;
           which
           being
           at
           first
           but
           temporarily
           permitted
           and
           allowed
           
             &
             patientia
             &
             charitate
             in
             quoddam
             jus
             transierunt
          
           ▪
           are
           now
           by
           an
           accustomed
           and
           continued
           charity
           ,
           taken
           to
           be
           a
           kind
           of
           Tenant
           Right
           and
           Inheritance
           .
           Grants
           and
           permits
           many
           Charters
           of
           Liberties
           ,
           Privileges
           and
           Freedoms
           to
           the
           Cities
           ,
           Boroughs
           and
           Towns
           Corporate
           of
           England
           and
           Wales
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Lord
           Mayor
           and
           Commonalty
           of
           London
           ,
           all
           Issues
           ,
           Fines
           ,
           
           and
           Amerciaments
           ret●rned
           and
           imposed
           upon
           them
           in
           any
           of
           the
           Kings
           Cours
           ,
           freedome
           from
           payment
           of
           Tolls
           and
           Lastage
           in
           their
           way
           of
           an
           universall
           and
           diffused
           Trade
           in
           all
           places
           of
           England
           :
           and
           for
           a
           small
           Fee
           Farme
           Rent
           of
           
             Fifty
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           for
           the
           Kings
           Tolls
           at
           
             Queen-Hithe
             ,
             Billingsgate
          
           ,
           and
           other
           places
           in
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           accepted
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Third
           ,
           suffers
           them
           to
           have
           and
           receive
           
             in
             specie
          
           ,
           or
           mony
           towards
           their
           own
           Pourveyance
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           would
           goe
           a
           good
           way
           in
           his
           .
        
         
           Allows
           the
           Tenants
           in
           antient
           Demesn
           their
           Exemptions
           
           from
           the
           payment
           of
           Toll
           for
           their
           Houshold
           Provisions
           ,
           
           which
           in
           the
           opinion
           of
           Sir
           
             Edward
             Coke
          
           was
           at
           the
           first
           in
           regard
           of
           their
           helping
           to
           furnish
           the
           Kings
           houshold
           Provisions
           :
           and
           suffers
           the
           Universities
           of
           Oxford
           and
           Cambridge
           ,
           and
           the
           Colleges
           and
           Halls
           therein
           ;
           Colleges
           of
           Winchester
           and
           Eaton
           ,
           and
           the
           Re●ients
           in
           the
           
             Cinque
             Ports
          
           ,
           
           and
           
             Rumney
             Marsh
          
           ,
           to
           enjoy
           a
           Freedom
           from
           Subsidies
           .
        
         
           Who
           ,
           together
           with
           all
           the
           people
           of
           England
           ,
           may
           by
           the
           Accompt
           of
           benefits
           received
           by
           ,
           and
           from
           him
           ,
           and
           his
           Royall
           Progenitors
           and
           Predecessors
           ,
           know
           better
           how
           to
           value
           them
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           not
           received
           them
           ;
           and
           if
           he
           should
           but
           retire
           himself
           into
           himself
           ,
           and
           withdraw
           his
           bounties
           from
           us
           .
        
         
           Or
           take
           his
           Customes
           and
           Imposts
           inward
           and
           outward
           ,
           Reliefs
           ,
           Ayds
           ,
           Subsidies
           ,
           Fifteens
           ,
           Tenths
           ,
           and
           First-fruits
           ,
           Profits
           of
           his
           Seals
           ,
           P●ae-fines
           ,
           Post-fines
           ,
           Licences
           ,
           and
           Pardons
           for
           alienation
           of
           Lands
           ,
           Fines
           upon
           Fo●medons
           and
           reall
           Actions
           ,
           at
           the
           full
           value
           and
           rate
           which
           the
           Law
           will
           allow
           ,
           and
           the
           rise
           of
           money
           might
           perswade
           him
           unto
           ;
           or
           take
           all
           occasions
           to
           invade
           or
           clip
           the
           peoples
           Liberties
           and
           Privileges
           ,
           as
           they
           do
           his
           .
        
         
           
           Or
           seise
           and
           take
           advantage
           of
           the
           forfeitures
           of
           our
           sufficiently
           misused
           Fairs
           and
           Markets
           ,
           which
           without
           the
           many
           inconveniences
           of
           Barrage
           ,
           Billets
           peages
           ,
           or
           Tolls
           taken
           at
           many
           places
           as
           they
           pass
           thither
           ;
           as
           the
           people
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           our
           Fashion
           makers
           are
           tormented
           with
           ,
           do
           yield
           and
           save
           the
           people
           yearly
           in
           that
           which
           otherwise
           would
           be
           lost
           some
           
             hundred
             of
             thousands
             pounds
             per
             annum
             ,
          
           or
           should
           withdraw
           his
           favours
           and
           countenance
           from
           the
           Trade
           which
           our
           Merchants
           have
           into
           forreign
           Parts
           since
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Mary
           ,
           
           by
           the
           benefits
           and
           blessings
           of
           the
           Leagues
           and
           Alliances
           of
           him
           &
           his
           Royall
           Progenitors
           made
           with
           forreign
           Princes
           ,
           continued
           with
           a
           great
           yearly
           charge
           of
           Embassadours
           Ordinary
           and
           Extraordinary
           sent
           and
           received
           ,
           and
           render
           it
           to
           be
           no
           no
           more
           then
           it
           was
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           when
           the
           difference
           of
           the
           gain
           of
           forreign
           Trade
           and
           Merchandize
           ,
           betwixt
           the
           little
           which
           was
           then
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           is
           now
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           
             East-Indie
             ,
             Turkie
             ,
             Muscovie
             ,
             Ligorne
             ,
          
           and
           East-land
           Trades
           ,
           and
           our
           many
           flourishing
           American
           Plantations
           would
           appear
           to
           be
           some
           
             millions
             sterling
          
           money
           in
           a
           year
           .
        
         
           And
           were
           notwithstanding
           never
           so
           gratefull
           to
           our
           King
           for
           it
           ▪
           as
           the
           English
           Merchants
           of
           Calais
           were
           ,
           whilst
           King
           Edward
           the
           Third
           caused
           the
           Staple
           of
           Wool
           to
           be
           kept
           there
           ,
           who
           so
           ordered
           the
           matter
           ,
           as
           the
           King
           spent
           nothing
           upon
           Souldiers
           ,
           in
           defence
           of
           the
           Town
           ,
           which
           was
           wont
           to
           cost
           him
           
             eight
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           ;
           and
           the
           Mayor
           of
           that
           Town
           could
           in
           Anno
           ▪
           51
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           that
           King
           ,
           furnish
           the
           Captain
           of
           the
           Town
           upon
           any
           Rode
           to
           be
           made
           with
           one
           hundred
           Bill-men
           ,
           
           and
           two
           hundred
           Archers
           of
           Merchants
           and
           their
           Servants
           ,
           without
           any
           wages
           .
        
         
           Or
           if
           the
           Peoples
           Liberties
           ,
           acquired
           by
           the
           munificence
           and
           Indulgence
           of
           our
           Kings
           since
           the
           making
           and
           confirming
           of
           our
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           ,
           in
           the
           ninth
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Third
           ,
           
           now
           437
           years
           ago
           ,
           when
           they
           took
           it
           to
           be
           for
           their
           good
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Kings
           ,
           to
           give
           him
           a
           Fifteenth
           part
           of
           all
           their
           Moveables
           (
           not
           by
           a
           conniving
           and
           unequall
           ,
           but
           a
           more
           real
           and
           impartiall
           Taxation
           ,
           in
           recompence
           ,
           and
           as
           a
           thankfull
           Retribution
           for
           their
           Liberties
           
           then
           granted
           and
           confirmed
           )
           which
           are
           now
           as
           many
           again
           ,
           or
           do
           farre
           ex●ed
           them
           ,
           were
           bu●
           justly
           value●
           ▪
           or
           if
           the
           benefits
           accrewed
           unto
           forreign
           Merchants
           ,
           or
           those
           of
           our
           own
           Nation
           ,
           by
           the
           
             Char●a
             Mercatoria
          
           ,
           granted
           by
           King
           Edward
           the
           First
           in
           the
           31
           year
           of
           his
           Reign
           to
           the
           Me●chants
           Strangers
           ,
           and
           confirmed
           by
           Act
           of
           Pa●liament
           in
           Anno
           27
           Ed.
           3.
           for
           the
           releasing
           of
           an
           antient
           Custome
           and
           Duty
           to
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           ,
           of
           permitting
           their
           Officers
           and
           Servants
           to
           take
           what
           the
           King
           pleased
           out
           of
           Forreign
           Commodities
           ,
           and
           Merchandize
           brought
           into
           England
           upon
           payment
           of
           such
           rates
           as
           he
           pleased
           ,
           which
           amount
           unto
           no
           small
           yearly
           profit
           for
           an
           Exchange
           and
           grant
           by
           the
           Merchants
           Strangers
           of
           
             three
             pence
             per
             pound
          
           (
           now
           called
           the
           
             Petit
             Customes
          
           )
           of
           all
           forreign
           Merchandises
           imported
           ,
           except
           Wines
           ;
           for
           every
           Sack
           of
           Wool
           
             forty
             pence
          
           ,
           for
           every
           300
           Wolfels
           
             forty
             pence
          
           ,
           and
           for
           every
           last
           of
           Leather
           to
           be
           exported
           half
           a
           mark
           over
           and
           above
           the
           Duties
           payable
           by
           Denizens
           ,
           were
           but
           rightly
           estimated
           .
        
         
           Or
           the
           benefits
           which
           the
           Subiects
           of
           England
           have
           had
           and
           received
           by
           the
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           made
           in
           Anno
           14
           Ed.
           3.
           granting
           that
           all
           Merchants
           ,
           Denizens
           and
           Aliens
           may
           freely
           and
           safely
           come
           into
           the
           Realme
           of
           England
           ,
           which
           before
           they
           could
           not
           ,
           or
           durst
           not
           adventure
           to
           do
           without
           speciall
           licence
           and
           safe
           conduct
           under
           the
           great
           ,
           or
           some
           part
           of
           the
           Seal
           of
           England
           ,
           with
           their
           Goods
           and
           Merchandize
           ,
           and
           safely
           tarry
           and
           return
           ,
           paying
           the
           Subsidies
           and
           Customes
           reasonably
           due
           :
           together
           with
           the
           ease
           and
           benefit
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           great
           loss
           and
           damage
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           which
           the
           Merchants
           of
           England
           as
           well
           as
           those
           of
           forreign
           Parts
           have
           by
           the
           loss
           of
           Calais
           since
           Queen
           Maries
           
           time
           ,
           and
           the
           remove
           of
           the
           Staple
           from
           thence
           ,
           whither
           all
           Goods
           Exported
           out
           of
           England
           were
           to
           be
           first
           brought
           ,
           &
           a
           Custome
           Inward
           the
           second
           time
           paid
           ,
           and
           for
           so
           much
           (
           which
           may
           be
           believed
           to
           be
           the
           greatest
           part
           )
           as
           was
           again
           from
           thence
           Exported
           into
           other
           Countries
           ,
           the
           Customes
           a
           third
           time
           paid
           ,
           which
           made
           the
           Customes
           and
           Subsidies
           only
           for
           Goods
           Exported
           in
           the
           later
           end
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Third
           ,
           and
           during
           the
           Reigns
           of
           King
           Richard
           the
           Second
           ,
           Henry
           the
           Fourth
           ,
           Henry
           the
           Fifth
           ,
           and
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Sixth
           ,
           as
           appeareth
           by
           the
           Records
           of
           the
           Exchequer
           to
           amount
           unto
           threescore
           ,
           or
           threescore
           and
           
             ten
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           which
           according
           to
           the
           valuation
           of
           mony
           at
           this
           day
           ,
           saith
           Sir
           
             John
             Davies
          
           ,
           
           the
           ounce
           of
           Silver
           being
           raised
           from
           
             twenty
             pence
          
           unto
           
             five
             shillings
          
           ,
           would
           amount
           unto
           
             two
             hundred
             thousand
             pounds
          
           sterling
           
             per
             annum
          
           .
           And
           the
           difference
           betwixt
           the
           payment
           of
           Customes
           and
           Subsidies
           then
           paid
           three
           times
           over
           for
           one
           and
           the
           same
           thing
           ,
           and
           the
           payment
           of
           it
           but
           once
           ,
           as
           is
           now
           used
           ,
           with
           many
           other
           great
           benefits
           beyond
           a
           valuation
           not
           here
           particularized
           .
        
         
           And
           consider
           how
           unworthy
           it
           would
           be
           for
           the
           Natives
           and
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           after
           many
           Knights
           Fees
           ,
           and
           Lands
           freely
           given
           and
           granted
           by
           the
           Kings
           Royall
           Progenitors
           to
           their
           Forefathers
           and
           their
           Heirs
           ,
           to
           be
           holden
           by
           Knight-service
           and
           
             in
             Capite
          
           ;
           of
           which
           ,
           if
           the
           
             sixty
             thousand
          
           Knights
           Fees
           ,
           and
           more
           reckoned
           by
           antient
           Authors
           ,
           should
           be
           no
           greater
           a
           number
           then
           
             ten
             thousand
          
           ,
           and
           valued
           but
           at
           twenty
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           as
           they
           were
           reckoned
           
             in
             anno
             primo
             Edwardi
             secundi
          
           ,
           they
           would
           amount
           unto
           
             two
             hundred
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ;
           and
           if
           but
           at
           
           
             three
             hundred
          
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           which
           is
           now
           the
           least
           ●mprovement
           ,
           would
           amount
           unto
           
             three
             Millions
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           besides
           great
           quantities
           of
           other
           Lands
           being
           twice
           or
           thrice
           as
           much
           more
           in
           the
           severall
           Reigns
           of
           his
           Majesties
           Royall
           Progenitors
           ,
           freely
           granted
           and
           given
           unto
           othe●s
           of
           them
           and
           their
           Heirs
           to
           be
           holden
           in
           Socage
           ,
           to
           endeavour
           to
           extinguish
           the
           right
           use
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           forget
           their
           Obligations
           to
           their
           Prince
           and
           Common
           Parent
           ,
           and
           his
           Royall
           Progenitors
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           too
           many
           of
           their
           Actions
           and
           business
           cozen
           or
           beg
           all
           they
           can
           from
           him
           ;
           and
           in
           stead
           of
           saying
           
             Domine
             quid
             retribuam
          
           ,
           Lord
           what
           shall
           I
           render
           unto
           thee
           for
           all
           thy
           benefits
           ,
           make
           it
           the
           greatest
           of
           their
           care
           ,
           imployment
           ,
           and
           business
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           take
           ,
           but
           keep
           from
           him
           all
           they
           can
           ,
           even
           at
           the
           same
           time
           when
           they
           had
           obteyned
           of
           him
           an
           unparralleld
           Act
           of
           Indempnity
           and
           Oblivion
           ,
           and
           to
           to
           forget
           all
           their
           evil
           designes
           and
           offences
           intended
           or
           committed
           against
           him
           and
           his
           blessed
           Father
           ,
           and
           to
           pardon
           and
           give
           them
           as
           much
           as
           fifteen
           or
           
             sixteen
             millions
          
           sterling
           in
           the
           Arrears
           of
           his
           own
           Revenue
           and
           two
           or
           
             three
             hundred
             millions
          
           Sterling
           at
           least
           for
           the
           forfeiture
           of
           theirs
           .
           And
           might
           have
           remembred
           ,
           how
           they
           promised
           him
           their
           lives
           and
           fortunes
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           his
           Tenants
           
             in
             Corde
          
           ;
           and
           with
           what
           a
           Princely
           and
           Fatherly
           affection
           he
           told
           their
           Representatives
           ,
           that
           
             he
             was
             sorry
             to
             see
             so
             many
             of
             his
             good
             people
             come
             to
             see
             him
             at
          
           Whitehall
           ,
           
             and
             had
             no
             meat
             to
             feed
             or
             entertain
             them
          
           ;
           and
           how
           ashamed
           and
           unwilling
           they
           are
           in
           their
           ordinary
           and
           daily
           Actions
           and
           Affairs
           to
           come
           behind
           or
           be
           upon
           the
           score
           one
           to
           another
           in
           their
           reciprocations
           ,
           retributions
           ,
           and
           retorns
           of
           gratitudes
           ,
           and
           take
           it
           to
           be
           a
           disparagement
           not
           to
           out-vie
           or
           undo
           one
           
           another
           therein
           :
           how
           willingly
           they
           can
           part
           with
           their
           money
           to
           their
           children
           at
           School
           ,
           to
           make
           Oblations
           ,
           or
           Presents
           to
           their
           School-masters
           at
           their
           Intermissions
           or
           Breaking
           up
           of
           School
           at
           
             Christmas
             ,
             Easter
          
           ,
           or
           Whitsontyde
           ;
           a
           course
           newly
           invented
           by
           School-masters
           to
           better
           their
           Allowances
           and
           Incomes
           ;
           and
           chargeable
           enough
           to
           the
           Parents
           ,
           as
           may
           appear
           by
           the
           Offerings
           at
           a
           Christmas
           ,
           made
           unto
           some
           Capital
           School-Masters
           ,
           which
           have
           singly
           amounted
           unto
           five
           or
           
             six
             hundred
             pounds
          
           ,
           which
           with
           the
           Beds
           and
           Furniture
           ,
           and
           silver
           Spoons
           to
           be
           brought
           thither
           by
           the
           Boarders
           ,
           and
           left
           behind
           them
           at
           their
           departure
           ,
           do
           make
           as
           great
           or
           a
           greater
           charge
           to
           many
           Parents
           ,
           then
           what
           they
           were
           ever
           rated
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           :
           And
           how
           accustomed
           and
           willing
           an
           expence
           all
           people
           are
           desirous
           to
           put
           themselves
           unto
           
             pro
             honestate
             domus
          
           ,
           for
           the
           good
           and
           content
           of
           any
           Inne
           ,
           Tavern
           ,
           or
           Alehouse
           ,
           to
           make
           them
           some
           recompence
           for
           but
           coming
           into
           those
           houses
           upon
           any
           occasion
           or
           necessity
           of
           business
           .
           And
           can
           notwithstanding
           so
           readily
           finde
           the
           way
           to
           that
           unchristian
           River
           of
           Lethe
           and
           sinne
           of
           unthankfulness
           ,
           which
           God
           and
           all
           good
           men
           do
           abhorre
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           fierce
           and
           savage
           of
           the
           Beasts
           of
           the
           field
           ,
           &
           Fowls
           of
           the
           Ayr
           do
           scorn
           to
           be
           guilty
           of
           ,
           and
           make
           it
           their
           business
           to
           desire
           the
           King
           to
           foregoe
           his
           Pourveyance
           ,
           and
           take
           a
           seeming
           recompence
           of
           
             fifty
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           for
           it
           of
           the
           moyty
           of
           the
           Excise
           to
           be
           raised
           out
           of
           the
           Moans
           and
           Laments
           of
           the
           multitude
           ,
           which
           are
           the
           labouring
           and
           poorer
           sort
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           to
           free
           richer
           and
           better
           able
           from
           their
           heretofore
           small
           Payments
           or
           Contributions
           in
           Cattle
           ,
           and
           other
           Provisions
           for
           the
           Royall
           Pourveyance
           ,
           now
           that
           England
           enjoyeth
           a
           
           greater
           plenty
           then
           ever
           it
           did
           by
           some
           hundred
           thousand
           Acres
           of
           Fenne
           Lands
           drained
           ,
           many
           Forests
           and
           Chases
           deafforrested
           m●ny
           Parks
           converted
           unto
           Tillage
           or
           Pasture
           ,
           great
           quantities
           of
           other
           Lands
           inclosed
           ;
           and
           as
           much
           or
           more
           of
           Abby
           and
           Religious
           Lands
           retorned
           into
           Lay-hands
           ,
           fewer
           Taxes
           and
           publique
           Assessments
           by
           one
           to
           ten
           ,
           then
           are
           in
           the
           Kingdomes
           and
           Dominions
           of
           
             Spain
             ,
             France
          
           ,
           Empire
           of
           Germany
           ,
           and
           other
           Kingdomes
           and
           Principalities
           of
           Christendome
           ,
           the
           Republique
           of
           Venice
           ,
           and
           that
           Corporation
           of
           Kings
           ,
           the
           States
           of
           Holland
           ,
           and
           the
           united
           Provinces
           ,
           greater
           Improvements
           of
           Lands
           and
           prices
           for
           the
           fruits
           of
           the
           Earth
           ,
           then
           former
           ages
           ever
           saw
           ,
           or
           attained
           unto
           ,
           ten
           to
           one
           more
           Cattel
           ,
           Sheep
           ,
           Swine
           ,
           and
           Poultry
           fed
           and
           sold
           in
           England
           then
           formerly
           ;
           a
           freedome
           from
           the
           Popes
           and
           Romes
           former
           and
           many
           &
           daily
           heavy
           Taxations
           ,
           carrying
           away
           much
           of
           the
           Revenues
           thereof
           ,
           the
           universality
           of
           the
           people
           10
           or
           20
           times
           richer
           in
           moveables
           and
           household
           Furniture
           then
           ever
           their
           Forefathers
           were
           ,
           every
           man
           of
           10
           or
           20
           l.
           Land
           
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           now
           having
           one
           ,
           if
           not
           many
           pieces
           of
           Plate
           in
           his
           house
           (
           heretofore
           not
           to
           be
           found
           but
           in
           the
           houses
           of
           the
           Nobility
           or
           persons
           of
           great
           quality
           )
           many
           Alehouse-keepers
           ,
           a
           piece
           of
           Plate
           ,
           if
           not
           as
           many
           as
           his
           occasions
           call
           for
           ,
           instead
           of
           Black
           po●s
           ;
           every
           Artizan
           a
           piece
           or
           more
           of
           Plate
           ;
           and
           many
           of
           the
           richer
           sort
           of
           Citizens
           ,
           Merchants
           ,
           and
           Retaylo●s
           ,
           do
           take
           themselves
           to
           be
           disparaged
           &
           the
           
             Sons
             of
             contempt
          
           ,
           if
           they
           have
           not
           half
           ;
           and
           others
           almost
           all
           their
           Table-service
           in
           Silver
           Plate
           ,
           their
           Dyning
           Rooms
           ,
           and
           Lodging
           Chambers
           ,
           richly
           hung
           with
           Tapestry
           of
           30
           ,
           40
           ,
           or
           60
           l.
           a
           suit
           ,
           too
           many
           of
           their
           Wives
           hung
           with
           Pearl
           Neck-laces
           ,
           
           Diamond
           Lockets
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           costly
           sort
           of
           Jewels
           ,
           and
           little
           Tablets
           of
           their
           Husbands
           Pictures
           richly
           enameld
           or
           set
           in
           gold
           at
           the
           charge
           of
           25
           or
           20
           l.
           a
           piece
           ,
           to
           hang
           at
           the
           outside
           of
           their
           hearts
           ;
           and
           some
           of
           the
           retailing
           part
           of
           them
           think
           they
           come
           to
           farre
           behind
           their
           betters
           ,
           if
           they
           have
           not
           a
           kind
           of
           S●ate
           or
           Carpets
           to
           spread
           within
           their
           Chambers
           or
           Apartments
           ,
           or
           shall
           not
           be
           enough
           talked
           of
           or
           looked
           upon
           if
           they
           have
           not
           an
           Indian
           Foot-boy
           with
           a
           Coller
           of
           Silver
           about
           his
           neck
           to
           attend
           them
           ;
           and
           their
           delicacies
           and
           wantonness
           better
           attended
           then
           the
           afterwards
           destroyed
           and
           vagabond
           Jews
           ever
           had
           ,
           when
           the
           Almighty
           sent
           his
           Prophets
           to
           preach
           ,
           and
           inveigh
           against
           their
           excessive
           pride
           and
           wickedness
           ,
           a
           greater
           by
           many
           degrees
           more
           then
           heretofore
           increase
           of
           Trade
           ,
           untill
           our
           long
           and
           accursed
           Rebellion
           spoyled
           it
           ;
           more
           money
           put
           by
           Countrymen
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           were
           not
           Traders
           ,
           to
           Interest
           and
           Usury
           (
           which
           may
           shew
           how
           great
           an
           overplus
           many
           have
           beyond
           their
           necessary
           expences
           )
           then
           former
           ages
           were
           acquainted
           with
           as
           much
           Wood
           and
           Timber
           sold
           in
           our
           late
           times
           of
           prodigality
           ,
           as
           would
           have
           bought
           the
           Fee-simple
           and
           Inheritance
           of
           all
           or
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           Lands
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           many
           Rivers
           made
           navigable
           ,
           and
           Havens
           repaired
           ,
           the
           loss
           of
           Cattle
           ,
           and
           damage
           by
           Inundations
           and
           some
           unruly
           Rivers
           prevented
           by
           several
           Statutes
           o●
           Commissions
           of
           Sewers
           ,
           Depopulations
           prohibited
           ,
           many
           an
           unjust
           Title
           in
           concealed
           Lands
           made
           good
           after
           sixty
           years
           quiet
           possession
           ,
           Interest
           for
           money
           lent
           ,
           reduced
           to
           a
           lower
           rate
           then
           formerly
           ;
           and
           Brocage
           forbidden
           ,
           divers
           Statutes
           restraining
           Aliens
           not
           being
           den●zend
           to
           Trade
           or
           keep
           Shops
           ,
           the
           bringing
           of
           silver
           Bullion
           into
           England
           by
           our
           Merchants
           
           encouraged
           ,
           transportation
           of
           Gold
           and
           Silver
           prohibited
           ,
           Merchants
           of
           Ireland
           and
           Aliens
           ordained
           to
           employ
           their
           moneys
           received
           in
           England
           upon
           the
           Commodities
           thereof
           ,
           many
           great
           Factories
           and
           Trades
           erected
           and
           encouraged
           ,
           the
           Lands
           of
           Wales
           greatly
           improved
           ,
           and
           freedome
           ,
           formerly
           denyed
           ,
           had
           of
           Trade
           and
           Commerce
           with
           them
           ;
           the
           Marches
           of
           Wales
           secured
           from
           the
           Incursions
           of
           the
           Welch
           and
           the
           Northern
           Counties
           from
           those
           of
           the
           Scots
           ;
           abundance
           of
           Markets
           and
           Fairs
           granted
           more
           then
           formerly
           ;
           great
           store
           of
           Cattle
           brought
           in
           yearly
           from
           Ireland
           and
           Scotland
           ;
           and
           many
           a
           good
           and
           beneficiall
           Law
           and
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           made
           to
           remedy
           the
           peoples
           grievances
           ,
           and
           better
           enabling
           them
           to
           performe
           those
           very
           ancient
           and
           legall
           duties
           of
           Pourveyances
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           .
        
         
           Which
           may
           with
           us
           be
           understood
           to
           be
           the
           more
           reasonable
           ,
           when
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           in
           England
           ,
           if
           they
           did
           yearly
           charge
           the
           people
           ,
           or
           amount
           unto
           ,
           as
           they
           did
           not
           ,
           
             fifty
             or
             sixty
             five
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             annum
             ,
          
           or
           thereabouts
           ,
           did
           not
           yearly
           draw
           out
           of
           their
           Pu●ses
           or
           Estates
           so
           much
           as
           that
           which
           is
           yearly
           laid
           out
           in
           their
           buying
           of
           
             Babies
             ,
             Hobby-horses
          
           ,
           and
           Toyes
           for
           their
           Children
           to
           spoyl
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           play
           withall
           :
           or
           in
           the
           yearly
           charge
           of
           the
           Counties
           in
           the
           amending
           of
           the
           High-wayes
           ,
           Treatments
           given
           to
           Harvest
           folk
           ,
           Expences
           of
           an
           Harvest
           Goose
           or
           Seed-Cake
           ,
           given
           to
           their
           Plowmen
           ;
           and
           keeping
           a
           Wake
           or
           Parish
           Feast
           every
           year
           ,
           or
           the
           monies
           which
           the
           good
           women
           in
           every
           Parish
           and
           County
           do
           gladly
           rid
           themselves
           of
           in
           their
           Gossipings
           at
           the
           Birth
           of
           their
           Neighbours
           Children
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           most
           triviall
           ,
           chearfull
           ,
           and
           pleasing
           disbursements
           ;
           and
           nothing
           
           near
           so
           much
           as
           this
           last
           years
           excess
           in
           the
           wearing
           of
           Perrukes
           or
           Periwigs
           ;
           some
           at
           three
           pounds
           ,
           others
           at
           five
           or
           ten
           pounds
           price
           ,
           which
           Clerks
           ,
           and
           the
           smallest
           size
           of
           Tradesmen
           and
           Journymen
           ,
           Apprentices
           ,
           Ba●be●s
           ,
           and
           Vintners
           boys
           must
           of
           necessity
           have
           to
           hide
           their
           heads
           and
           little
           wit
           is
           .
           Or
           in
           the
           womens
           long
           &
           needless
           Trains
           ,
           or
           unreasonable
           length
           of
           their
           Gowns
           (
           every
           Lady
           or
           Gentlewoman
           ,
           or
           many
           ridiculous
           proud
           Citizens
           Wives
           being
           certainly
           not
           Dutchesses
           or
           Countesses
           ,
           or
           allowed
           to
           have
           their
           Trains
           carried
           up
           )
           to
           shew
           the
           length
           of
           their
           vanities
           ,
           and
           informe
           the
           Common
           people
           ,
           who
           do
           with
           abhorrence
           behold
           them
           how
           much
           better
           it
           would
           be
           to
           bestow
           that
           ten
           or
           
             twenty
             pounds
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           so
           foolishly
           expended
           ,
           upon
           the
           Poor
           in
           charity
           and
           almes
           deeds
           ,
           then
           to
           make
           their
           tails
           the
           Beesoms
           or
           Deputy-Scavengers
           of
           the
           streets
           or
           places
           where
           they
           walk
           ;
           or
           the
           mony
           which
           hath
           been
           lately
           expended
           in
           altering
           or
           putting
           too
           many
           of
           the
           Common
           people
           into
           the
           low
           crowned
           little
           Hats
           or
           flat
           Caps
           ,
           to
           cover
           the
           folly
           of
           every
           Absalom
           or
           Inhabitant
           in
           a
           hideous
           bush
           of
           hair
           or
           Periwig
           ;
           or
           their
           adorning
           them
           with
           as
           many
           Ribbons
           ,
           as
           the
           vanities
           they
           are
           guilty
           of
           :
           or
           in
           the
           yearly
           or
           never
           murmured
           at
           charges
           or
           expences
           of
           almost
           all
           sorts
           of
           people
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           the
           Countries
           as
           Cities
           ,
           in
           the
           exchanging
           or
           following
           of
           Fashions
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           were
           to
           make
           all
           the
           hast
           possible
           they
           could
           to
           purchase
           them
           ,
           lest
           there
           should
           not
           be
           fools
           enough
           in
           the
           Nation
           ,
           or
           that
           the
           ridiculous
           
             French
             Ape
          
           should
           not
           have
           enough
           to
           be
           of
           his
           Livery
           or
           Retinue
           .
           ▪
        
         
           And
           as
           to
           the
           severall
           kinds
           of
           all
           those
           severall
           particulars
           ,
           would
           make
           the
           foot
           of
           the
           Accompt
           to
           be
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           then
           that
           of
           the
           Pourveyance
           
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           which
           was
           so
           easie
           and
           petit
           ,
           as
           in
           most
           of
           the
           Counties
           of
           England
           it
           was
           many
           times
           not
           singly
           rated
           or
           assessed
           ,
           but
           was
           joyned
           with
           some
           other
           Assesse
           .
           And
           in
           Kent
           ,
           where
           ten
           or
           twenty
           times
           more
           being
           gained
           by
           the
           Kings
           residence
           at
           Westminster
           ,
           more
           was
           paid
           then
           in
           any
           one
           County
           of
           England
           ,
           was
           so
           little
           felt
           and
           regarded
           ,
           as
           a
           Tenant
           paying
           
             One
             hundred
             pounds
          
           rent
           
             per
             annum
          
           for
           his
           Land
           ,
           did
           not
           think
           it
           worth
           his
           care
           to
           reckon
           it
           to
           his
           Landlord
           ,
           and
           demand
           an
           allowance
           for
           it
           .
           The
           Counties
           and
           Places
           which
           did
           pay
           most
           towards
           the
           furnishing
           of
           the
           Kings
           Household
           provisions
           ,
           being
           those
           which
           abound
           most
           with
           them
           ,
           and
           were
           the
           greatest
           gainers
           by
           their
           neighbourhood
           to
           the
           constant
           residence
           of
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Courts
           of
           Justice
           :
           And
           those
           which
           were
           more
           remote
           ,
           had
           but
           little
           charged
           upon
           them
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           13
           Shires
           of
           Wales
           but
           
             three
             hundred
             sixty
             pounds
             per
             annum
             ,
             Herefordshire
             One
             hundred
             eighty
             pounds
             per
             annum
             ,
          
           and
           that
           large
           County
           of
           York
           as
           big
           as
           three
           others
           ,
           but
           
             four
             hundred
             ninty
             five
             pounds
             per
             annum
             .
          
        
         
           And
           may
           tell
           us
           how
           irrationall
           and
           uneven
           it
           will
           be
           for
           the
           people
           of
           England
           to
           rank
           with
           or
           above
           the
           care
           of
           their
           souls
           and
           Religion
           ,
           their
           endeavours
           to
           preserve
           their
           Liberties
           ,
           Customes
           and
           Privileges
           ,
           some
           of
           which
           are
           hard
           and
           severe
           enough
           ,
           as
           the
           forfeiture
           of
           the
           Widows
           Estates
           for
           life
           in
           their
           deceased
           Husbands
           Copyhold
           Estates
           of
           Inheritance
           for
           marrying
           a
           second
           Husband
           ,
           unless
           they
           shall
           come
           into
           the
           Court
           Baron
           of
           the
           Lord
           of
           the
           Manor
           riding
           upon
           a
           
             Black
             Ram
          
           ,
           and
           acknowledge
           such
           a
           fault
           committed
           :
           or
           the
           custome
           of
           the
           Manor
           of
           Balshale
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Warwick
           ,
           where
           the
           Lord
           of
           the
           Manor
           was
           to
           divide
           
           the
           Goods
           and
           personall
           Estate
           of
           the
           deceased
           ,
           with
           his
           Wife
           and
           Children
           :
           the
           custome
           of
           the
           Manor
           of
           Brails
           in
           the
           same
           County
           ,
           not
           to
           marry
           their
           Daughters
           ,
           or
           to
           make
           their
           Sons
           Priests
           without
           licence
           of
           the
           Lord
           of
           the
           Manor
           :
           or
           of
           the
           Manor
           of
           Brede
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Sussex
           ,
           where
           the
           Widows
           are
           not
           to
           be
           endowed
           ,
           or
           have
           dower
           of
           any
           of
           the
           Lands
           of
           their
           first
           Husband
           ,
           if
           they
           shall
           marry
           again
           .
           The
           custome
           of
           some
           Manors
           that
           the
           Copiholder
           shall
           not
           sell
           his
           Lands
           unto
           a
           Stranger
           ,
           untill
           he
           shall
           have
           first
           offered
           it
           unto
           the
           next
           of
           Kin
           ,
           or
           Neighbour
           
             ab
             oriente
             solis
          
           ,
           dwelling
           on
           the
           East
           side
           of
           him
           ,
           who
           giving
           as
           much
           as
           others
           would
           do
           for
           it
           ,
           are
           to
           have
           it
           :
           or
           where
           the
           Copiholder
           is
           to
           give
           his
           Lord
           a
           certain
           summe
           of
           money
           towards
           his
           charges
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Warre
           ;
           or
           to
           forfeit
           his
           land
           ,
           if
           summoned
           unto
           the
           Lords
           Court
           ,
           &
           doth
           wilfully
           make
           default
           :
           or
           that
           the
           Lord
           or
           Lady
           of
           the
           Manor
           of
           Coveny
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Cambridge
           ,
           should
           have
           for
           every
           Fornication
           or
           Adultery
           committed
           in
           the
           Manor
           ,
           a
           Lecherwyte
           ,
           or
           penalty
           of
           5
           s.
           and
           2
           d.
           for
           selling
           a
           Hog
           without
           licence
           of
           the
           Lord
           of
           that
           Manor
           ;
           
           and
           
             five
             shillings
          
           for
           a
           Licence
           for
           any
           one
           of
           the
           Tenants
           Daughters
           to
           be
           married
           .
           And
           yet
           do
           all
           they
           can
           to
           infringe
           and
           abolish
           those
           iust
           ,
           ancient
           ,
           and
           legall
           Rights
           and
           Privileges
           of
           the
           Kings
           which
           should
           protect
           and
           defend
           them
           and
           theirs
           ;
           and
           being
           
             rationabilia
             &
             legitimè
             praescripta
          
           most
           reasonably
           and
           lawfully
           prescribed
           ought
           to
           be
           
             inviolabilia
             ,
             quia
             nec
             divino
             juri
             nec
             legibus
             naturae
             ,
             &
             Gentium
             ,
             sive
             municipalibus
             contradicunt
             ,
          
           
           inviolable
           when
           they
           contradict
           not
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           Nature
           ,
           and
           Nations
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           as
           if
           all
           that
           is
           to
           be
           found
           in
           our
           Laws
           ,
           and
           reasonable
           Customes
           should
           be
           only
           to
           
           protect
           the
           peoples
           Rights
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           the
           inferiour
           Members
           of
           the
           Body
           Politique
           ,
           and
           to
           diminish
           and
           abrogate
           that
           of
           the
           Kings
           ,
           the
           superiour
           more
           noble
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           more
           to
           be
           respected
           ;
           or
           as
           if
           the
           power
           of
           a
           Prince
           should
           be
           the
           better
           when
           it
           is
           weakest
           ;
           a
           blind
           or
           decrepit
           pennyless
           Captain
           or
           Generall
           more
           usefull
           for
           their
           Warres
           then
           a
           Sampson
           a
           David
           ,
           or
           a
           Solomon
           as
           full
           of
           Riches
           as
           W●sdome
           ,
           and
           a
           Wooden
           Sword
           more
           for
           that
           purpose
           then
           one
           of
           Iron
           and
           Steel
           ,
           or
           that
           of
           Goliah
           .
        
         
           How
           unjust
           as
           well
           as
           unreasonable
           it
           would
           be
           for
           the
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           to
           rack
           and
           raise
           the
           Rents
           and
           rates
           of
           their
           Lands
           and
           Commodities
           ,
           &
           increase
           their
           own
           Revenues
           and
           prices
           of
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           provisions
           ,
           five
           or
           six
           to
           one
           more
           then
           it
           was
           when
           the
           Compositions
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           was
           agreed
           upon
           in
           the
           third
           or
           fourth
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           and
           lay
           the
           burden
           thereof
           only
           upon
           the
           King
           ,
           make
           him
           to
           be
           as
           an
           Amorite
           or
           Stranger
           in
           our
           Israel
           ,
           and
           his
           own
           dominions
           ,
           paying
           an
           enhaunced
           and
           oppressing
           Rate
           and
           Interest
           for
           food
           and
           provisions
           for
           himself
           and
           his
           houshold
           :
           and
           to
           receive
           his
           rents
           and
           other
           monies
           due
           unto
           him
           after
           the
           old
           rate
           ,
           and
           buy
           at
           the
           new
           ,
           take
           little
           more
           then
           
             four
             pence
          
           instead
           of
           a
           shilling
           in
           every
           summe
           which
           is
           paid
           him
           ,
           and
           pay
           
             twelve
             pence
          
           for
           every
           groats
           worth
           which
           he
           hath
           occasion
           to
           buy
           ,
           and
           drive
           or
           inforce
           him
           by
           buying
           all
           by
           the
           penny
           ,
           and
           being
           left
           to
           the
           mercy
           of
           the
           Sellers
           to
           such
           a
           prejudiciall
           necessity
           or
           custome
           as
           would
           certainly
           undoe
           and
           ruine
           all
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           Gentry
           ,
           Clergy
           ,
           Tradesmen
           ,
           Mechanicks
           ,
           and
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           if
           they
           should
           but
           imitate
           him
           .
           And
           would
           without
           the
           help
           of
           our
           S●●taries
           or
           Levellers
           ,
           have
           
           ere
           now
           destroyed
           and
           ruined
           the
           two
           famous
           Universities
           of
           Oxford
           and
           Cambridge
           ,
           those
           great
           Lights
           and
           Fountains
           of
           Learning
           in
           our
           Nation
           ,
           and
           have
           brought
           their
           Towring
           Colledges
           Halls
           ,
           and
           glorious
           Buildings
           into
           their
           Rubbidge
           ,
           or
           little
           more
           then
           a
           story
           to
           talk
           of
           as
           Travellers
           sometimes
           do
           of
           the
           heretofore
           University
           or
           Publique
           School
           of
           Stamford
           ,
           if
           the
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           in
           18
           Eliz
           ,
           had
           not
           better
           provided
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           ordained
           ,
           that
           a
           third
           part
           of
           the
           rents
           of
           the
           Lands
           belonging
           unto
           them
           ,
           should
           be
           for
           ever
           reserved
           and
           paid
           in
           Corn
           ,
           Malt
           ,
           and
           other
           Provisions
           at
           their
           election
           .
        
         
           Or
           now
           to
           deny
           it
           him
           ,
           when
           as
           if
           he
           or
           his
           Father
           ,
           or
           Royall
           Progenitors
           could
           have
           foreseen
           any
           dislike
           or
           complaining
           of
           such
           an
           ancient
           and
           unquestionable
           Right
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           he
           or
           they
           might
           by
           a
           restraint
           of
           their
           Bounties
           and
           Indulgencies
           have
           made
           themselves
           not
           only
           savers
           ,
           but
           gainers
           by
           it
           ;
           or
           reserved
           more
           then
           that
           in
           their
           multituds
           of
           Grants
           and
           Fee-Farme
           Rents
           .
        
         
           And
           did
           never
           as
           Cromwell
           ,
           that
           dissembling
           and
           devouring
           Hiena
           or
           
             Wolfe
             of
             the
             Evening
          
           ,
           dig
           or
           teare
           up
           by
           the
           roots
           as
           many
           of
           our
           Laws
           and
           Liberties
           as
           he
           could
           ,
           upon
           a
           pretence
           of
           defending
           and
           protecting
           them
           ,
           call
           our
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           in
           the
           worst
           Latin
           that
           ever
           Brewer
           or
           Englishman
           spake
           ,
           
             Magna
             Fartae
          
           ,
           imprison
           the
           Lawyers
           that
           pleaded
           for
           the
           Peoples
           liberties
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           little
           sensible
           of
           their
           being
           tired
           or
           impoverished
           with
           Taxes
           ,
           as
           he
           could
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           lieutenant
           Generall
           of
           the
           Army
           of
           Reforming
           Harpies
           ,
           give
           some
           Gentlemen
           of
           the
           County
           of
           Bedford
           ,
           who
           complained
           of
           their
           heavy
           burdens
           ,
           and
           the
           poverty
           of
           that
           County
           ,
           no
           better
           an
           answer
           or
           ease
           ,
           
           then
           
             that
             he
             would
             never
             believe
             they
             were
             unable
             to
             pay
             Taxes
             as
             long
             as
             they
             could
             whistle
             when
             they
             did
             drive
             their
             Plows
             and
             Carts
             .
          
        
         
           Nor
           did
           after
           the
           horrid
           Murder
           of
           his
           Father
           ,
           and
           his
           own
           Exile
           and
           sufferings
           by
           an
           almost
           
             twenty
             years
          
           Rebellion
           of
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           (
           grown
           rich
           with
           the
           plunder
           and
           spoyl
           of
           those
           that
           adhaered
           unto
           him
           ;
           and
           having
           destroyed
           the
           Sheep
           ,
           can
           now
           as
           if
           they
           were
           innocent
           ,
           appear
           in
           Sheeps
           clothing
           ,
           )
           enforce
           those
           that
           rebelled
           against
           him
           and
           his
           Royall
           Father
           to
           compound
           ,
           as
           King
           H.
           3.
           did
           his
           Rebellious
           People
           (
           all
           but
           the
           unhappy
           
             Robert
             Ferrers
          
           Earl
           of
           Derby
           ,
           the
           Heirs
           of
           
             Simon
             de
             Mountfort
          
           Earl
           of
           Leicester
           ,
           and
           some
           few
           others
           )
           for
           their
           pardons
           or
           redemption
           of
           their
           forfeited
           Lands
           ,
           by
           his
           Commission
           ,
           or
           
             dictum
             de
             Kenelworth
          
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           their
           several
           Delinquencies
           ,
           so
           as
           the
           greatest
           Fines
           should
           not
           exceed
           five
           years
           ,
           and
           the
           lowest
           not
           be
           less
           then
           two
           years
           of
           the
           then
           true
           yearly
           value
           of
           their
           Lands
           and
           Estates
           ,
           Neither
           as
           the
           late
           pretended
           Parliament
           and
           
             Oliverian
             Tormentors
          
           of
           all
           that
           were
           good
           ,
           did
           in
           a
           more
           severe
           manner
           ,
           when
           they
           forfeited
           ,
           and
           would
           not
           permit
           many
           of
           the
           Loyall
           Party
           at
           all
           to
           compound
           ,
           and
           constrained
           the
           rest
           to
           compound
           for
           a
           supposed
           fighting
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           well
           known
           ,
           that
           they
           did
           really
           fight
           ,
           and
           suffer
           for
           him
           ;
           made
           them
           to
           pay
           great
           and
           excessive
           Fines
           ,
           some
           according
           to
           a
           third
           ,
           and
           others
           a
           half
           of
           the
           full
           yearly
           value
           of
           their
           Lands
           and
           Estates
           ;
           and
           others
           in
           what
           arbitrary
           way
           they
           pleased
           for
           their
           personal
           Estates
           ,
           and
           moneyes
           due
           unto
           them
           :
           And
           after
           they
           had
           proceeded
           so
           farre
           in
           the
           ruining
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           granted
           them
           a
           slender
           Act
           of
           Oblivion
           ,
           choaked
           with
           a
           great
           
           many
           of
           Provisos
           ,
           did
           upon
           the
           loyall
           Attempts
           of
           some
           of
           them
           ,
           to
           recall
           their
           King
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           Decimate
           ,
           and
           make
           those
           also
           that
           had
           not
           therein
           offended
           their
           Masterships
           of
           Sin
           and
           Rebellion
           ,
           to
           pay
           and
           compound
           for
           a
           Tenth
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           as
           if
           Loyalty
           had
           been
           a
           sin
           ,
           and
           like
           that
           of
           Adam
           ,
           the
           first
           Inhabitant
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           been
           to
           be
           punished
           in
           all
           the
           loyall
           Party
           ,
           and
           their
           Generations
           ,
           squeese
           their
           Estates
           ,
           or
           require
           any
           Contributions
           ,
           or
           Summes
           of
           money
           of
           them
           more
           then
           of
           all
           the
           Loyall
           Party
           ,
           towards
           the
           payment
           of
           many
           
             hundred
             thousand
             pounds
          
           sterling
           in
           Arrear
           ,
           to
           themselves
           and
           the
           Souldiers
           which
           had
           been
           before
           imployed
           to
           ruine
           him
           ,
           when
           after
           his
           most
           happy
           Restauration
           ,
           he
           was
           contented
           for
           the
           quiet
           and
           welfare
           of
           the
           Nation
           to
           pay
           it
           out
           of
           his
           own
           Revenues
           &
           the
           publick
           and
           generall
           Contributions
           .
        
         
           Nor
           did
           in
           his
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           for
           a
           generall
           Pardon
           and
           Indempnity
           insert
           any
           Proviso
           for
           their
           good
           adhaering
           towards
           him
           and
           his
           Royall
           Crown
           and
           dignity
           ;
           or
           compel
           them
           as
           is
           usually
           done
           in
           cases
           of
           Pardons
           for
           Felony
           or
           Manslaughter
           to
           find
           Sureties
           for
           their
           better
           behaviour
           towards
           him
           and
           his
           People
           .
        
         
           But
           gave
           way
           unto
           his
           extraordinary
           mercy
           and
           compassion
           to
           a
           People
           who
           in
           the
           Career
           of
           their
           Sins
           ,
           Rebellion
           ,
           and
           Rapine
           ,
           could
           not
           find
           the
           way
           to
           pity
           the
           sad
           condition
           of
           their
           Souls
           ,
           Bodies
           ,
           and
           Estates
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           that
           concerned
           the
           good
           and
           welfare
           of
           his
           People
           ,
           was
           willing
           to
           imitate
           and
           remember
           that
           Maxime
           of
           his
           blessed
           father
           the
           Martyr
           ,
           that
           
             the
             Peoples
             Liberties
             did
             strengthen
             the
             Kings
             Prerogative
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             Kings
             Prerogative
             is
             to
             defend
             the
             Peoples
             Liberties
          
           ;
           And
           was
           lately
           heard
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           
             he
             would
             not
             ,
             if
             he
             might
             ,
             be
             absolute
             ,
             or
             not
             restrained
             in
             many
             things
             by
             the
             
             Laws
             which
             he
             or
             his
             Royall
             Progenitors
             had
             made
             or
             granted
             ,
             that
             the
             Laws
             of
          
           England
           
             were
             the
             b●st
             Laws
             in
             the
             world
             ,
             that
             if
             the
             wisest
             men
             in
             the
             world
             had
             been
             appointed
             to
             make
             Laws
             ,
             they
             could
             have
             made
             no
             better
             ;
             and
             that
             if
             they
             had
             not
             been
             made
             ,
             he
             would
             most
             willingly
             make
             the
             same
             again
             .
          
        
         
           How
           little
           would
           be
           gained
           to
           the
           people
           by
           denying
           him
           the
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           who
           hath
           a
           just
           ,
           most
           antient
           ,
           and
           legall
           right
           to
           those
           their
           small
           Retributions
           ,
           if
           he
           should
           restrain
           the
           bitings
           and
           oppression
           of
           their
           Markets
           and
           Merchandize
           ,
           or
           by
           his
           removing
           his
           Residence
           and
           Courts
           of
           Justice
           from
           Westminster
           ,
           make
           London
           and
           her
           twelve
           adjacent
           Counties
           ,
           
             viz.
             Middlesex
             ,
             Kent
             ,
             Surrey
             ,
             Sussex
             ,
             Southampton
             ,
             Essex
             ,
             Hertford
             ,
             Bedford
             ,
             Cambridge
             ,
             Huntington
             ,
             Buckingham
             ,
          
           and
           Northamptonshires
           ,
           to
           loose
           more
           then
           forty
           times
           as
           much
           every
           year
           by
           it
           :
           Although
           he
           should
           not
           abate
           or
           bring
           down
           the
           rates
           of
           Rents
           and
           Provisions
           so
           low
           as
           King
           Edward
           the
           Sixth
           did
           intend
           to
           do
           ,
           
           when
           to
           satisfie
           some
           of
           the
           discontented
           Commons
           and
           People
           in
           Armes
           and
           Rebellion
           against
           him
           ,
           he
           did
           undertake
           ,
           
             that
             there
             should
             be
             an
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             in
             the
             next
             ensuing
             Parliament
             ,
             to
             lessen
             and
             reduce
             the
             Rents
             of
             Lands
             (
             scarce
             half
             so
             high
             and
             unreasonable
             as
             now
             they
             are
             )
             to
             what
             they
             had
             been
             forty
             years
             before
             .
          
        
         
           And
           how
           unequal
           it
           would
           be
           ,
           that
           the
           People
           should
           by
           infringing
           of
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           improvement
           and
           high
           rack
           of
           their
           Lands
           and
           Commodities
           ,
           take
           advantage
           of
           their
           own
           doing
           of
           wrong
           unto
           others
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Citizens
           of
           London
           ,
           and
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           the
           twelve
           adjacent
           Counties
           should
           desire
           his
           Residence
           to
           be
           so
           near
           his
           
             Chamber
             of
             London
          
           ,
           
           and
           make
           him
           by
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           his
           Pourveyance
           so
           great
           a
           looser
           by
           it
           ;
           when
           if
           like
           the
           Sun
           in
           the
           Firmament
           ,
           he
           should
           diffuse
           and
           carry
           his
           light
           and
           heat
           to
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           his
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           not
           make
           London
           and
           its
           neighbou●ing
           Counties
           an
           East
           or
           West-Indies
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           to
           be
           as
           a
           Greenland
           ,
           either
           by
           removing
           his
           Courts
           and
           Residence
           to
           Worcester
           or
           Ludlow
           towards
           Wales
           ,
           or
           to
           York
           ,
           the
           People
           of
           London
           ,
           and
           the
           neighbouring
           Counties
           would
           as
           soon
           lament
           his
           absence
           and
           removall
           ,
           as
           he
           would
           find
           the
           ease
           and
           benefit
           of
           it
           :
           as
           his
           Royall
           Father
           King
           Charles
           the
           Martyr
           did
           in
           the
           year
           1640
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           at
           Newcastle
           with
           his
           Court
           and
           Army
           in
           the
           Borders
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           where
           the
           rate
           or
           price
           which
           he
           allowed
           at
           London
           for
           the
           Provisions
           of
           his
           Houshold
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Compositions
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           ,
           appeared
           to
           be
           so
           much
           above
           the
           Market
           rates
           ,
           as
           the
           People
           brought
           it
           in
           so
           plentifully
           ,
           as
           he
           was
           enforced
           by
           his
           Proclamation
           to
           forbid
           the
           bringing
           in
           of
           such
           an
           overplus
           .
        
         
           And
           may
           to
           their
           cost
           hereafter
           believe
           that
           they
           shal
           be
           as
           little
           gainers
           by
           that
           small
           yearly
           sum
           of
           mony
           ,
           which
           they
           do
           but
           think
           they
           shall
           save
           by
           the
           not
           paying
           the
           Compositions
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           by
           the
           Kings
           acquitall
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           they
           have
           been
           ,
           or
           may
           be
           in
           his
           release
           of
           his
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           ,
           and
           by
           Knights
           service
           ;
           when
           they
           dream
           of
           that
           which
           may
           be
           imagined
           to
           be
           a
           benefit
           ;
           but
           when
           they
           are
           waking
           ,
           will
           never
           be
           found
           to
           be
           so
           ,
           and
           will
           in
           the
           yearly
           expence
           or
           accidents
           of
           the
           better
           and
           richer
           part
           of
           the
           People
           in
           the
           charges
           of
           finding
           Offices
           ,
           defraying
           the
           Fees
           of
           Escheators
           and
           Feodaries
           ,
           many
           Writs
           Process
           ,
           and
           Suits
           in
           that
           which
           was
           the
           Court
           of
           Wards
           and
           Liveries
           ,
           and
           their
           
           payment
           of
           Rents
           &
           Compositions
           for
           Wardships
           will
           not
           be
           enough
           to
           satisfie
           ,
           or
           set
           against
           the
           very
           many
           great
           oppressions
           ,
           mischiefs
           ,
           and
           inconveniences
           which
           since
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           that
           Court
           ,
           and
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knights
           service
           have
           fallen
           upon
           the
           Orphans
           or
           fatherless
           Children
           of
           that
           part
           of
           the
           People
           and
           their
           Estates
           ,
           when
           the
           Wolves
           shall
           be
           made
           the
           Keepers
           of
           the
           Lambs
           ,
           and
           every
           indigent
           or
           wastfull
           father
           in
           Law
           shall
           be
           a
           Guardian
           to
           those
           whose
           Estates
           he
           makes
           it
           his
           business
           to
           spend
           and
           ruine
           ,
           or
           to
           transferre
           upon
           his
           own
           Children
           :
           and
           the
           charge
           and
           trouble
           of
           Petitions
           at
           the
           Councell
           Board
           ,
           or
           more
           tedious
           Suits
           in
           Chancery
           to
           be
           relieved
           against
           them
           ;
           the
           pay
           of
           more
           Life-guards
           ,
           or
           a
           small
           standing
           Army
           (
           to
           keep
           the
           People
           within
           the
           bounds
           of
           their
           duty
           ,
           and
           secure
           good
           Subjects
           from
           the
           mischief
           intended
           by
           the
           bad
           )
           frequent
           Musters
           of
           the
           Trained
           Bands
           more
           then
           formerly
           ,
           and
           of
           an
           Army
           to
           be
           hired
           upon
           an
           occasion
           of
           an
           Invasion
           ,
           or
           the
           transferring
           the
           
             sedem
             belli
          
           ,
           or
           miseries
           of
           warre
           into
           an
           Enemies
           Country
           ,
           much
           whereof
           would
           not
           have
           needed
           to
           be
           ,
           if
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           ,
           and
           by
           Knight-service
           ,
           those
           stronger
           Towers
           and
           Forts
           of
           our
           David
           ,
           those
           Horsemen
           and
           Charriots
           of
           our
           Israel
           ;
           and
           alwayes
           ready
           Garrisons
           composed
           of
           the
           best
           and
           worthiest
           men
           of
           our
           Nation
           ;
           not
           hirelings
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           Vulgus
           ,
           nor
           unlettered
           ,
           unskilfull
           ,
           and
           uncivilized
           ,
           nor
           rude
           or
           debauched
           part
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           but
           of
           those
           who
           would
           fight
           
             tanquam
             pro
             aris
             &
             focis
          
           ,
           as
           they
           and
           their
           worthy
           Ancestors
           ever
           used
           to
           do
           ,
           for
           the
           good
           and
           honour
           of
           their
           King
           and
           Country
           ,
           and
           the
           preservation
           of
           their
           own
           Families
           ,
           as
           being
           obliged
           unto
           it
           by
           the
           strongest
           tyes
           and
           obligations
           of
           
           law
           and
           gratitude
           ,
           which
           ever
           were
           ,
           or
           could
           be
           laid
           upon
           the
           fortunes
           Estates
           ,
           Souls
           and
           Bodies
           of
           men
           ,
           that
           would
           have
           a
           care
           but
           of
           either
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           Or
           to
           put
           in
           the
           Ballance
           against
           the
           benefits
           which
           they
           had
           in
           the
           preservation
           of
           their
           Woods
           ,
           recording
           their
           discents
           and
           titles
           to
           their
           Lands
           ,
           and
           many
           a
           Deed
           and
           Evidence
           which
           would
           otherwise
           have
           been
           lost
           ,
           or
           not
           easie
           to
           be
           found
           ,
           and
           the
           help
           and
           ayd
           which
           their
           heirs
           in
           their
           infancies
           have
           never
           failed
           of
           in
           all
           their
           Suits
           and
           Concernments
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           seldome
           abuses
           of
           some
           naughty
           Pourveyors
           ,
           and
           the
           complaints
           thereby
           do
           not
           any
           thing
           neer
           amount
           unto
           the
           immense
           gains
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           of
           some
           
             millions
             sterling
             per
             annum
          
           ,
           in
           their
           vast
           improvements
           of
           their
           Lands
           and
           Estates
           by
           the
           rack
           and
           rise
           of
           rents
           enhaunce
           of
           Servants
           and
           Labourers
           wages
           ,
           and
           all
           commodities
           in
           all
           parts
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           before
           and
           since
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           when
           the
           Compositions
           for
           the
           Pourveyance
           were
           made
           and
           agreed
           upon
           ,
           may
           seem
           but
           a
           very
           small
           yearly
           Retribution
           to
           the
           King
           or
           his
           Royall
           Progenitors
           for
           permitting
           so
           much
           as
           shall
           be
           reasonable
           of
           it
           :
           And
           the
           People
           of
           England
           might
           better
           allow
           him
           those
           small
           and
           legall
           advantages
           ,
           which
           are
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           as
           much
           for
           publique
           good
           as
           his
           own
           ,
           then
           they
           do
           themselves
           in
           many
           of
           their
           own
           affairs
           one
           with
           another
           in
           many
           of
           their
           particular
           &
           private
           ends
           &
           advantages
           ;
           wherein
           the
           will
           and
           bequests
           o●
           the
           dead
           &
           their
           Hospitalls
           ,
           Legacies
           ,
           or
           Gifts
           to
           charitable
           uses
           ,
           are
           not
           ,
           nor
           have
           been
           so
           well
           managed
           as
           they
           ought
           to
           be
           .
        
         
           As
           may
           be
           instanced
           in
           those
           multitudes
           of
           charitable
           Legacies
           or
           Gifts
           in
           lands
           ,
           originally
           cut
           out
           and
           proportioned
           to
           the
           maintenance
           of
           certain
           numbers
           
           of
           poor
           ,
           or
           for
           some
           particular
           uses
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           increase
           and
           improvement
           of
           Rents
           before
           and
           since
           the
           dissolution
           of
           the
           Abbies
           ,
           Religious
           Houses
           ,
           and
           Hospitals
           ,
           did
           very
           much
           surmount
           the
           proportions
           which
           were
           at
           the
           first
           allowed
           ,
           or
           intended
           for
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           with
           more
           Reason
           and
           Justice
           ,
           then
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           their
           Guilds
           and
           Fraternities
           do
           now
           enjoy
           divers
           Lands
           which
           were
           given
           for
           Lamps
           ,
           and
           other
           superstitious
           uses
           ,
           for
           which
           they
           compounded
           by
           order
           of
           the
           Councell
           Board
           with
           King
           Edward
           the
           Sixth
           for
           
             twenty
             thousand
             pounds
          
           ,
           
           and
           more
           then
           that
           ,
           which
           that
           and
           many
           other
           Cities
           and
           Towns
           do
           take
           and
           receive
           for
           Tolls
           ,
           which
           being
           many
           times
           only
           granted
           for
           years
           ;
           or
           upon
           some
           temporary
           occasions
           are
           since
           kept
           and
           retained
           as
           rights
           :
           besides
           many
           Gifts
           and
           Charitable
           Uses
           since
           the
           dissolution
           of
           the
           Abbies
           and
           Religious
           Houses
           ,
           amounting
           to
           a
           very
           great
           yearly
           value
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           improvement
           and
           rise
           of
           Rents
           ,
           beyond
           the
           proportion
           of
           the
           Gifts
           ,
           or
           the
           intention
           of
           the
           Givers
           ,
           have
           been
           either
           conveyed
           by
           J●yntures
           or
           leases
           to
           wives
           or
           children
           ,
           or
           much
           of
           the
           overplus
           which
           came
           by
           the
           improvement
           ,
           or
           concealed
           Charitable
           Uses
           ,
           converted
           by
           the
           Governours
           of
           many
           a
           City
           and
           Town
           Corporate
           ,
           to
           the
           maintenance
           of
           themselves
           ,
           the
           Worship
           of
           the
           Corporation
           ,
           and
           many
           a
           comfortable
           Feast
           and
           Meeting
           for
           the
           pretended
           good
           of
           the
           〈◊〉
           people
           thereof
           ,
           who
           are
           but
           seldome
           ,
           if
           at
           all
           the
           better
           for
           it
           .
           Some
           of
           which
           not
           to
           mention
           any
           of
           greater
           bulk
           or
           value
           ,
           may
           appear
           in
           a
           few
           instances
           instead
           of
           a
           multitude
           of
           that
           kind
           ,
           dispe●sed
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           as
           two
           Closes
           of
           Land
           ,
           or
           Meadow
           Ground
           lying
           in
           the
           Parish
           of
           Shoreditch
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Middlesex
           ,
           given
           by
           
             Simon
             Burton
          
           ,
           Citizen
           
           and
           Merchant-Taylor
           of
           London
           ,
           in
           the
           year
           1579.
           unto
           St.
           Thomas
           Hospital
           upon
           condition
           ,
           
           that
           the
           Governors
           of
           the
           said
           Hospitall
           should
           yearly
           give
           unto
           30
           poor
           Persons
           of
           the
           said
           Parish
           ,
           on
           the
           21
           ,
           22
           ,
           or
           23
           dayes
           of
           December
           for
           ever
           the
           summe
           of
           
             eight
             pence
          
           a
           piece
           .
           Mr.
           
             William
             Hanbury
          
           ,
           Citizen
           and
           White-baker
           of
           London
           ,
           did
           by
           a
           Surrender
           in
           the
           year
           1595.
           give
           unto
           
             Elizabeth
             Spearing
          
           certain
           Copihold
           Lands
           in
           Stebu●heath
           and
           Ratcliffe
           in
           the
           said
           County
           ,
           to
           pay
           the
           Parson
           and
           Church-wardens
           of
           the
           said
           Parish
           for
           ever
           ,
           to
           the
           use
           of
           the
           poor
           People
           there
           ,
           two
           and
           fifty
           shillings
           yearly
           ,
           which
           by
           consent
           of
           the
           Parish
           ,
           is
           by
           twelve
           pence
           every
           Wednesday
           weekly
           bestowed
           upon
           the
           Poor
           abroad
           .
           And
           Mrs.
           
             Alice
             Hanbury
          
           Widow
           by
           her
           will
           did
           in
           the
           same
           year
           give
           unto
           Mr.
           
             George
             Spearing
          
           a
           Tenement
           in
           the
           said
           Parish
           ,
           wherein
           
             William
             Bridges
          
           a
           Taylor
           then
           dwelled
           ,
           upon
           condition
           that
           the
           said
           
             George
             Spearing
          
           ,
           his
           Heirs
           and
           Assignes
           should
           yearly
           pay
           to
           the
           Churchwardens
           of
           the
           said
           Parish
           and
           their
           Successors
           ,
           to
           the
           use
           of
           the
           poor
           and
           impotent
           People
           ,
           thirteen
           shillings
           and
           four
           pence
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           whether
           the
           King
           be
           enough
           recompenced
           ,
           or
           not
           at
           all
           recompenced
           for
           his
           Pourveyance
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           none
           of
           the
           best
           bargains
           for
           the
           Subjects
           of
           England
           ,
           or
           their
           Posterity
           ,
           to
           exchange
           or
           take
           away
           so
           great
           and
           n●●●ssary
           a
           part
           of
           his
           Prerogative
           ,
           or
           support
           of
           Majesty
           ,
           as
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           were
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           Parliament
           in
           the
           4
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           ,
           were
           held
           to
           be
           such
           an
           inseperable
           Adjunct
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           Imperiall
           dignity
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           be
           aliened
           ,
           and
           some
           few
           years
           after
           believed
           by
           that
           incomparable
           Sir
           
           
             Francis
             Bacon
          
           ,
           afterwards
           Lord
           Chancellor
           of
           England
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           necessary
           
             support
             of
             the
             Kings
             Table
             ,
             a
             good
             help
             ,
          
           
           
             and
             justly
             due
             unto
             him
          
           :
           And
           the
           Learned
           both
           in
           Law
           and
           Politiqu●s
           in
           other
           Nations
           as
           well
           as
           our
           own
           ,
           have
           told
           us
           that
           such
           
             Sacra
             Sacrorum
          
           (
           is
           Baldus
           )
           and
           Individua
           (
           as
           Cynus
           )
           termeth
           them
           ,
           which
           
             Jurisconsultorum
             communi
             quodam
             decreto
          
           ,
           
           by
           an
           uncontraverted
           opinion
           of
           all
           Lawyers
           ,
           
             nec
             cedi
             ,
             nec
             distrahi
             ,
             nec
             ulla
             ratione
             ababienari
             a
             summo
             principe
             posse
             ,
          
           cannot
           (
           as
           Bodni
           saith
           )
           be
           granted
           away
           ,
           or
           released
           ,
           no●
           by
           any
           manner
           of
           way
           alienated
           or
           withholden
           from
           the
           Sovereign
           Prince
           ;
           
             nec
             ulla
             quidem
             temporis
             diuturnitate
             praescribi
             posse
             ,
          
           nor
           by
           any
           length
           of
           time
           prescribed
           against
           him
           ;
           and
           are
           therefore
           by
           Besoldus
           cal-called
           
             Imperii
             &
             Majestatis
             Jura
             &
             bona
             regno
             conjuncta
             incorporata
             ,
             seu
             corona
             unit
             a
             quae
             princeps
             alienari
             nequit
          
           ;
           the
           Rights
           of
           Empire
           and
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           the
           goods
           and
           part
           of
           the
           Crown
           so
           incorporate
           and
           united
           unto
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           Prince
           cannot
           alien
           them
           ;
           which
           to
           attempt
           would
           not
           be
           much
           different
           from
           the
           endeavours
           to
           restrain
           a
           Prince
           by
           a
           Law
           not
           to
           receive
           or
           demand
           any
           Subsidies
           ,
           Oblations
           ,
           Civilities
           ,
           or
           Respects
           from
           his
           People
           ;
           which
           like
           a
           Law
           against
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           or
           
             contra
             bonos
             more
             's
          
           .
           would
           by
           the
           opinion
           of
           our
           no
           less
           Judicious
           and
           Learned
           
             Hobart
             ,
             Bacon
          
           ,
           and
           Hutton
           ,
           be
           voyd
           and
           of
           none
           effect
           ,
           for
           the
           Presents
           and
           good
           will
           of
           Inferiours
           unto
           their
           Superiours
           ,
           (
           not
           bribes
           to
           corrupt
           Justice
           )
           either
           for
           favours
           done
           or
           to
           be
           done
           ,
           is
           one
           of
           the
           antient
           and
           most
           noble
           Customes
           which
           mankind
           hath
           ever
           practised
           ,
           and
           began
           so
           with
           the
           beginning
           or
           youth
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           
           as
           we
           find
           the
           Patriarch
           Jacob
           sending
           with
           his
           Sons
           to
           his
           then
           unknown
           Son
           Joseph
           ,
           besides
           the
           mony
           
           which
           he
           gave
           them
           to
           buy
           corn
           in
           Egypt
           ,
           a
           Present
           of
           the
           
             best
             fruits
             of
             the
             Country
             ,
             a
             little
             Balm
             ,
             and
             a
             little
             Honey
             ,
             Spices
             and
             Myrrhe
             ,
             Nuts
             and
             Almonds
             .
          
        
         
           Saul
           when
           he
           thought
           not
           of
           ever
           being
           a
           King
           ,
           whilst
           he
           was
           busied
           in
           the
           enquiring
           for
           his
           Fathers
           Asses
           ,
           
           did
           not
           think
           fit
           to
           goe
           unto
           Samuel
           the
           man
           of
           God
           ,
           who
           was
           then
           accompted
           honourable
           ,
           unless
           he
           had
           a
           Present
           to
           bring
           him
           .
        
         
           Most
           of
           the
           People
           of
           the
           East
           brought
           Presents
           unto
           their
           Kings
           ,
           as
           was
           seen
           in
           the
           splendour
           and
           greatness
           of
           Solomon
           ;
           and
           
             sine
             quibus
          
           ,
           as
           Grotius
           saith
           ,
           
           
             Reges
             non
             adire
             solebant
          
           ,
           did
           not
           without
           presents
           come
           a
           near
           their
           Kings
           ;
           and
           was
           a
           Custome
           long
           after
           not
           forgotten
           by
           the
           Kings
           or
           Wisemen
           coming
           out
           of
           the
           East
           to
           worship
           &
           adore
           our
           blessed
           Saviour
           at
           his
           Birth
           .
        
         
           The
           Persians
           in
           their
           Kings
           Progresses
           ,
           did
           
             munera
             offerre
             neque
             vilia
             vel
             exilia
             ,
             neque
             nimis
             praetiosa
             &
             magnifica
             ,
          
           
           bring
           him
           Presents
           neither
           precious
           nor
           contemptible
           ,
           from
           which
           
             etiam
             Agricolae
             &
             opifices
          
           ,
           Workmen
           ,
           and
           Plowmen
           were
           not
           freed
           in
           bringing
           Wine
           ,
           Oxen
           ,
           Sheep
           ,
           Fruits
           ,
           and
           Cheeses
           ,
           and
           the
           first
           Fruits
           of
           what
           the
           earth
           brought
           forth
           ,
           
             quae
             non
             tributi
             ,
             sed
             doni
             loco
             censebantur
             ,
          
           which
           were
           not
           received
           or
           given
           as
           Tributes
           ,
           but
           as
           Oblations
           and
           Free
           gifts
           ,
           which
           made
           the
           poor
           
             Persian
             Synetas
          
           ,
           when
           he
           met
           with
           Artaxerxes
           and
           his
           Trayn
           in
           the
           way
           of
           his
           Progress
           ,
           rather
           then
           fail
           of
           something
           to
           offer
           ,
           hasten
           to
           the
           River
           ,
           and
           bring
           as
           much
           water
           as
           he
           could
           in
           his
           hands
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           chearfull
           countenance
           ,
           wishes
           ,
           and
           prayers
           for
           the
           health
           of
           the
           King
           present
           it
           unto
           him
           .
        
         
           Nor
           was
           not
           so
           altogether
           appropriate
           unto
           those
           Eastern
           Countries
           ,
           where
           God
           spake
           first
           unto
           his
           People
           ,
           and
           the
           Sun
           of
           his
           Righteousness
           did
           arise
           ;
           
           but
           was
           long
           agoe
           practised
           in
           England
           ,
           where
           the
           custome
           was
           ,
           as
           
             Gervasius
             Tilburi●nsis
          
           ,
           
           who
           wrote
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           Henry
           the
           Second
           ,
           and
           lived
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           First
           ,
           informs
           us
           upon
           all
           Addresses
           to
           the
           King
           
             qua●dam
             in
             rem
             &
             qua●dam
             in
             spem
             offerre
             ,
          
           to
           present
           the
           King
           with
           some
           or
           other
           Presents
           ,
           either
           upon
           the
           granting
           of
           any
           thing
           ,
           or
           the
           hopes
           which
           they
           had
           that
           he
           would
           do
           it
           afterwards
           :
           And
           so
           usually
           as
           there
           were
           Oblata
           Rolls
           or
           Memorialls
           kept
           of
           it
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           John
           ,
           and
           some
           other
           the
           succeeding
           Kings
           ,
           and
           the
           Queens
           ,
           or
           their
           Royall
           Consorts
           ,
           seldome
           escaped
           the
           tender
           of
           those
           gratitudes
           of
           
             Aurum
             Reginae
          
           ,
           Money
           or
           Gold
           presented
           unto
           them
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           unto
           their
           Kings
           ,
           and
           was
           a
           Custome
           not
           infrequent
           in
           the
           Saxon
           times
           ,
           as
           appeareth
           by
           our
           Doomsday
           Book
           ,
           the
           most
           exact
           and
           generall
           Survey
           of
           all
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           and
           so
           little
           afterwards
           neglected
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           paid
           upon
           every
           Pardon
           of
           Life
           or
           Member
           ,
           and
           so
           carefully
           collected
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           long
           after
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Third
           by
           an
           Inquisition
           taken
           after
           the
           death
           of
           
             Gilbert
             de
             Sandford
          
           ,
           
           who
           was
           by
           Inheritance
           Chamberlain
           to
           the
           Queens
           of
           England
           ,
           found
           that
           he
           had
           amongst
           many
           other
           Fees
           and
           Profits
           due
           unto
           him
           and
           his
           Heirs
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           that
           office
           
             six
             pence
             per
             diem
          
           ,
           allowed
           for
           a
           Clark
           in
           the
           Court
           of
           Exchequer
           ,
           to
           collect
           and
           gather
           the
           Oblation
           or
           Duty
           .
        
         
           Neither
           can
           there
           be
           any
           reason
           given
           why
           the
           Clergie
           ,
           for
           whom
           God
           the
           
             ratio
             rationum
          
           incomprehensible
           wisedome
           and
           greatest
           perfection
           ordained
           so
           great
           a
           Pourveyance
           for
           them
           in
           their
           Tythes
           and
           Oblations
           ,
           should
           enjoy
           it
           ,
           and
           his
           Vice-gerent
           and
           Protector
           of
           them
           be
           without
           it
           ,
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           the
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           Laity
           not
           want
           it
           either
           in
           kind
           ,
           or
           
           some
           other
           satisfaction
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           all
           Cities
           ,
           Corporations
           ,
           Guilds
           ,
           and
           Societies
           furnish
           out
           their
           grandeur
           and
           greatness
           derived
           only
           by
           reflection
           from
           that
           of
           the
           Kings
           ▪
           and
           he
           only
           be
           deprived
           of
           that
           which
           should
           maintain
           his
           hospitality
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           usefull
           to
           all
           other
           King●
           and
           Princes
           for
           the
           gaining
           of
           the
           affections
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           
             Et
             a
             concilier
          
           (
           as
           
             L●i●
             de
             Orleans
          
           saith
           )
           
             L'
             amour
             de
             〈◊〉
             subject●
             quil●
             〈◊〉
             par
             le
             bouche
             &
             d'
             leurs
             le
             pe●ple
             au
             〈◊〉
             &
             les
             p●●ds
             a
             lateste
             pour
             affirmir
             le
             corps
             politique
             ,
          
           
           
             et
             le
             l●er
             par
             ▪
             une
             grac●●use
             voire
             necessaire
             correspondence
          
           ;
           and
           to
           procure
           the
           love
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           who
           are
           taken
           by
           the
           mouth
           ,
           and
           to
           fasten
           them
           unto
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           Feet
           unto
           the
           Head
           ,
           strengthen
           the
           Body
           Politique
           ,
           and
           unite
           all
           the
           parts
           thereof
           by
           a
           loving
           and
           necessary
           complyance
           ,
           when
           he
           doth
           at
           the
           same
           time
           yearly
           pay
           and
           allow
           some
           thousands
           of
           pounds
           for
           the
           support
           and
           Pourveyance
           of
           his
           Councel
           in
           the
           Marches
           of
           Wales
           ,
           
           and
           his
           Judges
           and
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           and
           other
           Officers
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           for
           the
           administration
           of
           Justice
           .
        
         
           Or
           for
           us
           to
           think
           that
           when
           God
           in
           his
           Government
           of
           his
           chosen
           people
           of
           Israel
           ,
           in
           that
           his
           most
           righteous
           Theodratie
           ,
           did
           command
           them
           not
           to
           delay
           the
           offerings
           of
           the
           First
           of
           their
           
             Ripe
             Fruit●
          
           and
           of
           their
           Liquors
           ,
           and
           of
           
             their
             Oxen
             and
             their
             Sheep
          
           ,
           and
           ordained
           ,
           
           that
           
             if
             a
             Sheaf
             were
             forgotten
             in
             the
             time
             of
             Harvest
             ,
             they
             were
             not
             to
             goe
             again
             to
             fetch
             it
          
           ;
           and
           when
           
             they
             did
             beat
             their
             Olive
             trees
             ,
             they
             should
             not
             go
             ●ver
             it
             again
          
           ▪
           and
           
             gathered
             their
             grapes
             ,
             they
             should
             not
             gle●n
             them
             ,
          
           for
           
             they
             should
             be
             for
             the
             ●tranger
             ,
             the
             F●therless
             ▪
             and
             the
             Widow
             ,
          
           he
           would
           now
           be
           well
           pleased
           with
           such
           an
           unworthy
           sparing
           and
           avarice
           of
           Subjects
           ,
           in
           withholding
           their
           Oblations
           from
           his
           Deputies
           ,
           and
           disabling
           them
           
           from
           relieving
           the
           Strangers
           ,
           the
           Fatherless
           ,
           and
           the
           Widows
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           the
           rates
           of
           his
           houshold
           provisions
           being
           much
           the
           same
           ,
           or
           very
           near
           unto
           those
           which
           were
           agreed
           upon
           by
           the
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           of
           every
           County
           (
           who
           cannot
           be
           understood
           to
           be
           any
           Strangers
           to
           the
           rates
           and
           Market
           prices
           of
           every
           County
           )
           might
           not
           be
           now
           as
           cheap
           afforded
           as
           they
           were
           then
           ,
           
           or
           when
           they
           were
           cheaper
           in
           the
           ●3
           ▪
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Eighth
           ,
           now
           not
           much
           above
           130
           years
           agoe
           ,
           when
           24
           great
           B●eves
           were
           provided
           for
           a
           great
           and
           pompous
           Serjeants
           Feast
           at
           Ely
           house
           in
           London
           ,
           where
           the
           King
           ,
           Queen
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           the
           Lord
           Mayor
           and
           Aldermen
           of
           London
           were
           present
           ,
           (
           such
           provisions
           being
           then
           probably
           at
           a
           greater
           price
           then
           ordinary
           ,
           )
           for
           26
           s.
           8
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             from
             the
             Shambles
             ,
             a
             Carcase
             of
             an
             Oxe
             at
          
           24
           a●●
           s.
           10
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             ,
             one
             and
             fifty
             great
             Veals
             at
          
           4
           s.
           8
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             ,
             four
             and
             thirty
             Porks
             at
          
           3
           s
           8
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             ,
             ninety
             one
             Pigs
             at
          
           6
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             .
             Capons
             ten
             dozen
             at
          
           20
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             ,
             Kentish
             Capons
             nine
             dozen
             and
             a
             half
             at
          
           12
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             ,
             Capons
             course
             nineteen
             dozen
          
           6
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             ,
             Cocks
             of
             gross
             seaven
             dozen
             &
             nine
             at
          
           8
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             ,
             Cocks
             course
             fourteen
             dozen
             and
             eight
             at
          
           3
           
             d.
             a
             piece
             ,
             Pullets
             the
             best
             at
          
           2
           
             d.
             ob
             .
             a
             piece
             ,
             other
             Pullets
          
           2
           
             d.
             Pigeons
             thirty
             seaven
             dozen
             at
          
           10
           
             d.
             a
             dozen
             ,
             and
             Larks
             ,
             three
             hundred
             and
             forty
             dozen
             at
          
           5
           
             d
             a
             dozen
          
           ;
           if
           the
           Magistrates
           of
           England
           ,
           who
           are
           trusted
           by
           the
           Law
           with
           the
           Assi●e
           and
           correction
           of
           the
           rates
           and
           prices
           of
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           provisions
           ,
           and
           the
           punishment
           of
           Ingrossers
           ,
           Forestallers
           ,
           and
           Regrators
           ,
           did
           not
           sleep
           over
           their
           duty
           ;
           or
           too
           many
           of
           the
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           ,
           and
           Lords
           of
           Leets
           did
           not
           finde
           it
           to
           be
           more
           for
           their
           
           own
           advantages
           to
           improve
           and
           raise
           their
           Lands
           to
           the
           highest
           rack
           ,
           rather
           then
           reduce
           those
           now
           exorbitant
           rates
           and
           prices
           into
           that
           order
           which
           the
           Laws
           and
           Statutes
           of
           England
           do
           intend
           they
           should
           be
           .
        
         
           There
           being
           no
           just
           cause
           to
           complain
           of
           our
           payments
           to
           the
           King
           for
           his
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           of
           his
           necessary
           affairs
           ,
           when
           the
           cry
           and
           daily
           complaints
           of
           our
           want
           of
           money
           ,
           is
           not
           so
           much
           by
           reason
           of
           our
           want
           of
           Trade
           ,
           as
           our
           want
           of
           wit
           ,
           by
           mispending
           that
           which
           should
           regularly
           and
           orderly
           maintain
           us
           and
           our
           Families
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           not
           our
           want
           of
           Trade
           ,
           but
           our
           too
           much
           trading
           in
           pride
           ,
           excess
           ,
           and
           superfluities
           ,
           which
           hath
           brought
           the
           Nation
           into
           that
           Hectique
           Feaver
           ,
           and
           almost
           incurable
           Consumption
           ,
           which
           hath
           now
           seised
           upon
           the
           vitalls
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           would
           be
           very
           evident
           ,
           if
           a
           strict
           accompt
           and
           view
           were
           taken
           of
           what
           hath
           been
           needlesly
           and
           vitiously
           spent
           within
           these
           last
           twenty
           or
           thirty
           years
           more
           then
           formerly
           in
           Apparrel
           ,
           Diet
           ,
           Wine
           ,
           Tobacco
           ,
           Jewels
           ,
           Coaches
           ,
           new
           Fashions
           ;
           greater
           Portions
           given
           with
           Daughters
           ,
           then
           our
           Forefathers
           could
           either
           have
           given
           or
           thought
           fitting
           ;
           increase
           of
           Servants
           ,
           Artificers
           and
           Labourers
           wages
           ;
           gaming
           by
           women
           as
           well
           as
           men
           ,
           great
           interest
           and
           Brocage
           paid
           for
           money
           ,
           and
           buying
           upon
           Trust
           to
           support
           their
           vanities
           ;
           and
           twenty
           millions
           sterling
           lately
           spent
           in
           the
           enterteynment
           of
           the
           Devil
           ,
           and
           a
           most
           horrid
           Rebellion
           ,
           and
           seeking
           for
           a
           Liberty
           ;
           to
           loose
           all
           our
           own
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           may
           give
           us
           to
           understand
           ,
           that
           if
           we
           had
           that
           money
           again
           ,
           which
           was
           so
           foolishly
           mispended
           ,
           those
           that
           could
           then
           lay
           it
           out
           ,
           and
           now
           want
           it
           ,
           might
           subscribe
           unto
           this
           undenyable
           truth
           ,
           that
           there
           would
           be
           greater
           riches
           and
           less
           necessities
           
           seen
           in
           England
           ,
           then
           in
           any
           other
           Nation
           ,
           and
           enough
           and
           more
           then
           enough
           to
           drive
           the
           Trade
           thereof
           ;
           and
           that
           whilst
           the
           back
           and
           belly
           have
           vyed
           who
           should
           be
           most
           inordinate
           and
           profuse
           ,
           the
           improvement
           of
           Rents
           ,
           Wages
           ,
           and
           Commodit●●s
           ,
           have
           been
           to
           no
           better
           a
           purpose
           then
           to
           improve
           our
           vices
           ,
           and
           the
           Nationa●l
           as
           well
           as
           particular
           miseries
           and
           damage
           ,
           which
           are
           and
           will
           be
           the
           never
           ●a●ling
           concomitants
           and
           consequents
           of
           it
           :
           For
           no
           reason
           can
           be
           given
           why
           we
           should
           not
           as
           chearfully
           submit
           to
           any
           thing
           that
           tends
           to
           the
           support
           of
           the
           King
           and
           the
           Honour
           〈…〉
           Nation
           ,
           as
           every
           Citizen
           of
           London
           and
           man
           of
           Trade
           will
           do
           to
           the
           furnishing
           of
           Pageants
           or
           publick
           〈◊〉
           for
           the
           honor
           and
           Reputation
           of
           their
           City
           or
           Company
           ,
           or
           as
           the
           Universities
           sometime
           do
           in
           an
           Entertainment
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           their
           Chancellour
           ,
           though
           they
           did
           at
           the
           same
           time
           contribute
           to
           the
           Pourveyance
           ;
           or
           as
           the
           People
           of
           England
           did
           in
           the
           5
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           6th
           ,
           when
           the
           Queen
           Regent
           of
           Scotland●n
           ●n
           her
           return
           out
           of
           France
           thither
           ,
           desiring
           to
           take
           her
           Journy
           through
           England
           was
           by
           the
           City
           of
           London
           presented
           at
           her
           fi●st
           coming
           with
           
             Muttons
             ,
             Beefe
             ,
             Veals
             ,
             Poultry
             ,
             Wine
             ,
             and
             all
             other
             sorts
             of
             Provisions
             necessary
             for
             the
             Entertainment
             of
             her
             ,
             and
             her
             no
             small
             Train
             ,
          
           
           even
           to
           
             Bread
             and
             F●well
          
           ;
           and
           when
           she
           departed
           to
           goe
           for
           Scotland
           ,
           was
           after
           great
           and
           Princely
           Entertainments
           by
           the
           King
           at
           Whitchall
           conducted
           by
           the
           Sheriffs
           of
           London
           ,
           to
           whose
           care
           the
           King
           had
           committed
           it
           ,
           as
           farre
           as
           Waltham
           ,
           and
           by
           all
           the
           Sheriffs
           of
           all
           the
           Counties
           through
           which
           she
           passed
           ,
           untill
           she
           came
           unto
           the
           Borders
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           her
           Enterteynment
           being
           provided
           by
           the
           Kings
           appointment
           at
           the
           charge
           of
           the
           Counties
           .
        
         
         
           Nor
           can
           it
           be
           for
           the
           honour
           of
           the
           English
           Nation
           to
           come
           behind
           the
           Jews
           ,
           that
           stiffe
           necked
           and
           Rebellious
           Race
           of
           Mankind
           in
           their
           kindness
           and
           returns
           unto
           their
           Kings
           and
           Princes
           ,
           who
           notwithstanding
           that
           pedagoguy
           and
           hard
           hand
           of
           Government
           ,
           which
           the
           Almighty
           in
           his
           eternall
           Wisdome
           found
           necessary
           to
           put
           upon
           them
           in
           their
           releasing
           of
           Servants
           ,
           and
           letting
           their
           Lands
           lye
           untilled
           every
           seaventh
           year
           ,
           permitting
           their
           Debtors
           and
           Mortgagors
           or
           Ven●ors
           in
           every
           Jubile
           ,
           or
           50
           year
           ,
           to
           enjoy
           their
           Lands
           and
           Estates
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           at
           liberty
           :
           their
           many
           and
           many
           times
           Free-will
           and
           Thanksgiving
           Offerings
           ,
           
           Peace-Offerings
           ,
           Sin-Offerings
           ,
           costly
           Sacrifices
           ,
           Feasts
           unto
           the
           Lord
           ,
           and
           Journeys
           to
           Jerusalem
           ,
           the
           Offerings
           which
           were
           brought
           and
           prepared
           for
           the
           building
           of
           the
           Tabernacle
           in
           such
           aboundance
           (
           a
           readiness
           and
           zeal
           not
           now
           to
           be
           found
           amongst
           us
           ,
           as
           formerly
           in
           the
           building
           of
           Churches
           ,
           or
           repair
           of
           the
           Cathedral
           of
           St.
           Paul
           )
           as
           God
           directed
           Moses
           by
           a
           Proclamation
           to
           restrain
           them
           from
           bringing
           any
           more
           :
           and
           their
           Males
           appearing
           three
           times
           in
           every
           year
           before
           the
           Lord
           not
           empty
           handed
           and
           their
           very
           large
           Offerings
           also
           at
           the
           Dedication
           of
           the
           Temple
           ,
           
           when
           Solomon
           their
           King
           invited
           them
           unto
           it
           ,
           and
           their
           Corban
           or
           money
           ,
           often
           given
           to
           the
           Treasury
           of
           it
           ,
           could
           not
           forget
           their
           respects
           and
           duty
           to
           their
           Kings
           in
           their
           Presents
           or
           Pourveyance
           for
           them
           and
           their
           Houshold
           .
        
         
           When
           God
           would
           not
           suffer
           the
           Majesty
           of
           Kings
           ,
           shining
           as
           the
           beams
           &
           reflections
           of
           his
           divine
           Majesty
           upon
           the
           face
           of
           Moses
           when
           he
           came
           down
           out
           of
           the
           Mount
           from
           his
           conference
           with
           him
           to
           be
           abated
           or
           lessened
           ,
           but
           shewed
           his
           care
           of
           it
           in
           the
           severe
           punishment
           of
           the
           gain-saying
           of
           
             Corah
             ,
             Dathan
          
           ,
           &
           Abiram
           ,
           and
           their
           
           saying
           that
           Moses
           took
           too
           much
           upon
           him
           ;
           and
           is
           ,
           and
           ever
           hath
           been
           so
           essentiall
           ,
           &
           very
           necessary
           to
           the
           preservation
           of
           Authority
           and
           Government
           ,
           and
           the
           Subjects
           and
           People
           under
           it
           :
           
           as
           Saul
           ,
           when
           he
           had
           incurred
           the
           displeasure
           of
           God
           and
           his
           Prophet
           Samuel
           ,
           desired
           him
           not
           to
           dishonour
           him
           before
           the
           People
           .
           And
           David
           ,
           when
           he
           heard
           how
           shamefully
           his
           Embassadours
           had
           been
           abused
           by
           the
           King
           of
           Ammon
           ,
           ordered
           them
           to
           stay
           at
           Jericho
           untill
           
             their
             beards
             were
             grown
             out
          
           .
           
        
         
           The
           Romans
           ,
           who
           being
           at
           the
           first
           but
           Bubulci
           and
           Opiliones
           ,
           a
           rude
           Company
           o●
           Shepheards
           &
           Herdsmen
           ,
           and
           were
           looked
           upon
           as
           such
           a
           base
           and
           rude
           Rabble
           ,
           as
           the
           Sabines
           their
           Neighbours
           scorned
           to
           marry
           ,
           or
           be
           allyed
           with
           them
           ,
           did
           afterwards
           in
           their
           growing
           greatness
           ,
           (
           which
           like
           a
           torrent
           arising
           from
           a
           small
           assembly
           of
           waters
           ,
           did
           afterwards
           overrun
           and
           subdue
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           habitable
           World
           ;
           )
           hold
           their
           Consuls
           in
           such
           veneration
           ,
           as
           they
           had
           (
           as
           Cicero
           saith
           )
           
             magnum
             nomen
             ,
             magnam
             speciem
             ,
             magnam
             majestatem
             ,
          
           as
           well
           as
           
             magn●m
             potestatem
          
           ,
           as
           great
           an
           outward
           respect
           and
           veneration
           as
           they
           had
           authority
           ,
           and
           were
           so
           jealous
           and
           watchfull
           over
           it
           ,
           as
           their
           Consul
           Fabius
           would
           rather
           lay
           aside
           the
           honour
           due
           unto
           his
           Father
           from
           a
           Sonne
           (
           of
           which
           that
           Nation
           were
           extraordinary
           obse●vers
           )
           then
           abate
           any
           thing
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           commanded
           his
           aged
           Father
           Fabius
           ,
           the
           renowned
           rescuer
           and
           preserver
           of
           Rome
           ,
           in
           a
           publique
           Assembly
           to
           alight
           from
           his
           Horse
           ,
           and
           do
           him
           the
           honour
           due
           unto
           his
           present
           Magistracy
           ,
           which
           the
           good
           old
           man
           ,
           though
           many
           of
           the
           people
           did
           at
           the
           present
           dislike
           it
           ,
           did
           so
           approve
           of
           ,
           as
           he
           alighted
           from
           his
           horse
           ,
           and
           embracing
           his
           Son
           ,
           
           said
           ,
           
             Euge
             fili
             sapis
             ,
             qui
             intelligis
             quibus
             imperes
             ,
             &
             quam
             magnum
             magistratum
             susceperis
             ,
          
           
           my
           good
           Son
           ,
           you
           have
           done
           wisely
           in
           understanding
           over
           whom
           you
           command
           ,
           and
           how
           great
           a
           Magistracy
           you
           have
           taken
           upon
           you
           .
        
         
           And
           our
           Offa
           King
           of
           the
           Mercians
           in
           
             An.
             Dom.
          
           760
           ,
           an
           Ancestor
           of
           our
           Sovereign
           ,
           took
           such
           a
           care
           of
           the
           Honour
           and
           Rights
           due
           unto
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           to
           preserve
           it
           to
           his
           Posterity
           ,
           as
           he
           ordained
           ,
           
           that
           
             even
             in
             times
             of
             Peace
             ,
             himself
             ,
             and
             his
             Successors
             in
             the
             Crown
             ,
             should
             as
             they
             passed
             through
             any
             City
             have
             Trumpets
             sounded
             before
             them
             ,
          
           to
           shew
           that
           the
           Person
           of
           the
           King
           (
           saith
           the
           Leiger
           Book
           of
           
             St.
             Albans
             )
             should
             breed
             both
             fear
             and
             honour
             in
             all
             ,
             which
             did
             either
             see
             ,
             or
             hear
             him
             .
          
        
         
           Neither
           will
           it
           be
           any
           honour
           for
           Christians
           to
           be
           out-done
           by
           the
           Heathen
           in
           that
           or
           other
           their
           respects
           and
           observances
           to
           their
           Kings
           ,
           when
           the
           Romans
           did
           not
           seldome
           at
           their
           publique
           charge
           erect
           costly
           Statues
           ,
           
           and
           Memorialls
           of
           their
           g●atitude
           to
           their
           Emperours
           ,
           make
           chargeable
           Sacrifices
           ,
           
             ad
             aras
             &
             in
             aedibus
             honoris
             &
             virtutis
             ,
          
           in
           their
           Temples
           of
           Honour
           and
           Virtue
           ,
           could
           yearly
           throw
           money
           into
           the
           deep
           Lake
           or
           Gulfe
           of
           Curtius
           in
           Rome
           ,
           where
           they
           were
           like
           never
           to
           meet
           with
           it
           again
           
             pro
             voto
             &
             salute
             Imperatoris
          
           ,
           as
           Offerings
           for
           the
           health
           and
           happiness
           of
           their
           Emperou●s
           ;
           and
           all
           the
           City
           and
           Senate
           ,
           
             Calendis
             Januarii
             velut
             publico
             suo
             parenti
             Imperatori
             strenas
             largiebant
             ,
          
           did
           give
           New
           years-gifts
           to
           the
           Emperour
           as
           their
           publick
           Parent
           ,
           &
           bring
           them
           into
           the
           Capitol
           ,
           though
           he
           was
           absent
           ,
           and
           make
           their
           Pensitationes
           ,
           or
           Composition
           for
           Pourveyance
           for
           their
           Emperours
           to
           be
           a
           Canon
           unal●erable
           .
        
         
           Or
           by
           the
           Magnesians
           and
           Smirnaeans
           ,
           
           who
           upon
           a
           misfortune
           in
           Warre
           hapned
           to
           Seleucus
           King
           of
           Syria
           ,
           could
           make
           a
           League
           with
           each
           other
           ,
           and
           
           cause
           it
           to
           be
           engraven
           in
           Marble
           pillars
           ,
           which
           to
           our
           dayes
           hath
           escaped
           the
           Iron
           Teeth
           of
           time
           ,
           majestatem
           Seleuci
           
             tueri
             &
             conservare
          
           ,
           to
           preserve
           and
           defend
           the
           Honor
           and
           Majesty
           of
           Seleucus
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           their
           Sovereign
           or
           Prince
           ,
           but
           their
           Friend
           and
           Ally
           .
        
         
           Nor
           any
           thing
           to
           perswade
           us
           that
           our
           Forefathers
           were
           not
           well
           advised
           ,
           
           when
           in
           their
           care
           to
           preserve
           the
           honor
           of
           their
           King
           and
           Country
           ,
           they
           were
           troubled
           and
           angry
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           H.
           3.
           that
           at
           a
           publick
           Feast
           in
           Westminster-Hall
           ,
           the
           Popes
           Legate
           was
           placed
           at
           the
           Kings
           Table
           ,
           in
           the
           place
           where
           the
           King
           should
           have
           sate
           ,
           or
           when
           the
           Baronage
           ,
           or
           Commonalty
           of
           England
           ,
           did
           in
           a
           Parliament
           holden
           at
           Lincoln
           ,
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           First
           by
           their
           Letters
           to
           their
           then
           domineering
           demy-God
           the
           Pope
           ,
           who
           was
           averse
           unto
           it
           ,
           stoutly
           assert
           their
           Kings
           superiority
           over
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           and
           refuse
           that
           he
           should
           send
           any
           Commissioners
           to
           Rome
           ,
           to
           debate
           the
           matter
           before
           the
           Pope
           in
           Judgement
           ,
           which
           would
           tend
           to
           the
           disherison
           of
           the
           Crown
           of
           England
           ,
           the
           Kingly
           Dignity
           ,
           and
           prejudice
           of
           the
           Liberties
           ,
           
           Customes
           ,
           and
           Laws
           of
           their
           Forefathers
           ,
           to
           the
           observation
           and
           defence
           of
           which
           they
           were
           
             ex
             debito
             prestiti
             juramenti
             astricti
          
           ,
           bound
           by
           Oath
           ,
           and
           would
           not
           permit
           ,
           
             tam
             insolita
             &
             praejudicialia
          
           ,
           such
           unusuall
           and
           prejudiciall
           things
           to
           be
           done
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           by
           him
           if
           he
           should
           consent
           unto
           it
           .
        
         
           Or
           when
           the
           Pope
           intending
           to
           cite
           King
           Edward
           the
           Third
           to
           his
           Court
           at
           Rome
           ,
           in
           Anno
           40
           of
           his
           Reign
           ,
           to
           do
           homage
           to
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           for
           England
           and
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           to
           pay
           him
           the
           Tribute
           granted
           by
           King
           John
           ,
           the
           whole
           Estates
           in
           Parliament
           did
           by
           common
           consent
           declare
           unto
           the
           King
           ,
           that
           if
           the
           
             Pope
             
             should
             attempt
             any
             thing
             against
             him
             by
             process
             ,
          
           
           
             or
             other
             matter
             ,
             the
             King
             with
             all
             his
             Subjects
             should
             with
             all
             their
             force
             resist
             him
             :
          
           And
           in
           Anno
           42
           of
           King
           Ed.
           3.
           advised
           him
           to
           refuse
           an
           offer
           of
           peace
           made
           unto
           him
           by
           
             David
             le
             Bruse
          
           King
           of
           Scotland
           (
           though
           the
           War●es
           and
           frequent
           incursions
           of
           that
           Nation
           were
           alwayes
           sufficiently
           troublesome
           &
           chargeable
           )
           so
           that
           he
           might
           enjoy
           to
           him
           in
           Fee
           the
           whole
           Realm
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           
           without
           any
           subjection
           ,
           and
           declared
           that
           they
           
             could
             not
             assent
             unto
             any
             such
             Peace
             ,
             to
             the
             disherison
             of
             the
             King
             and
             his
             Crown
             ,
             and
             the
             great
             danger
             of
             themselves
             .
          
        
         
           Or
           that
           
             William
             Walworth
          
           he
           gallant
           Mayor
           of
           London
           ,
           whose
           fame
           for
           it
           will
           live
           as
           long
           as
           that
           City
           shall
           be
           extant
           ,
           was
           to
           be
           blamed
           ,
           when
           he
           could
           not
           endure
           the
           insolency
           of
           the
           Rebel
           
             Wat
             Tyler
          
           in
           suffering
           a
           Knight
           whom
           the
           King
           had
           sent
           to
           him
           to
           stand
           bare
           before
           him
           ,
           but
           made
           his
           Dagger
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           his
           Rout
           and
           Army
           teach
           his
           proud
           heart
           better
           manners
           .
        
         
           Or
           Richard
           Earl
           of
           Arundel●nd
           ●nd
           Surrey
           did
           more
           then
           was
           necessary
           ,
           when
           as
           he
           perceiving
           before
           hand
           the
           after
           accomplished
           wicked
           designe
           and
           ambition
           of
           John
           of
           Gaunt
           Duke
           of
           Lancaster
           ,
           and
           titular
           King
           of
           Leon
           and
           Castile
           ,
           
           did
           before
           the
           downfall
           of
           that
           unhappy
           Prince
           King
           Richard
           the
           Second
           ,
           complain
           in
           Parliament
           that
           he
           did
           sometimes
           
             go
             arme
             in
             arme
             with
             the
             King
             ,
             and
             make
             his
             men
             wear
             the
             same
             colour
             of
             Livery
             that
             the
             Kings
             servants
             did
             .
          
        
         
           Or
           that
           it
           was
           ill
           done
           by
           the
           Parliament
           in
           the
           14
           th
           .
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           that
           King
           ,
           when
           they
           petitioned
           him
           ,
           that
           the
           
             Prerogative
             of
             him
             and
             his
             Crown
             might
             be
             kept
             ,
             and
             that
             all
             things
             done
             to
             the
             contrary
             might
             be
             redressed
          
           :
           Or
           that
           the
           Lords
           Spirituall
           and
           Temporal
           ,
           and
           Commons
           in
           Parliament
           assembled
           in
           
           the
           16
           th
           year
           of
           the
           said
           Kings
           Reign
           ,
           did
           not
           well
           understand
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           when
           upon
           a
           Debate
           and
           consideration
           of
           the
           Popes
           Usurpation
           and
           Incroachments
           upon
           the
           Kings
           Regalities
           ,
           and
           his
           Holiness
           Provisions
           made
           for
           Aliens
           and
           Strangers
           by
           the
           benefices
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           
           they
           did
           unanimously
           declare
           ,
           that
           
             they
             and
             all
             the
             Leige
             Commons
             of
             the
             Realm
             would
             stand
             with
             the
             King
             and
             his
             Crown
             and
             Regality
             in
             the
             cases
             aforesaid
             ,
             and
             in
             all
             other
             cases
             attempted
             against
             him
             his
             Crown
             and
             Regality
             ,
             in
             all
             points
             to
             live
             and
             to
             dye
             :
          
           Or
           that
           our
           forefathers
           were
           not
           to
           be
           imitated
           in
           their
           stout
           assertions
           of
           the
           Rights
           of
           their
           Kings
           and
           their
           Regalities
           ,
           
           when
           in
           their
           zeal
           thereunto
           Humphry
           Duke
           of
           Glocester
           ,
           when
           the
           Pope
           had
           wrote
           Letters
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Sixth
           in
           derogation
           of
           the
           King
           &
           his
           Regality
           ,
           and
           the
           Church-men
           durst
           not
           speak
           against
           them
           ,
           he
           did
           throw
           his
           Letters
           and
           Missive
           into
           the
           fire
           and
           burn
           them
           .
        
         
           Or
           that
           it
           can
           be
           well
           done
           by
           us
           to
           withhold
           from
           him
           that
           small
           retribution
           of
           Pourveyance
           (
           which
           is
           a
           Duty
           established
           by
           a
           fourfold
           obligation
           ,
           composed
           of
           a
           Right
           or
           Duty
           ,
           a
           very
           antient
           Custome
           backt
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           Nature
           ,
           and
           Nations
           ,
           the
           Oaths
           of
           Allegeance
           and
           Supremacy
           ,
           and
           a
           contract
           made
           and
           continued
           by
           the
           people
           to
           their
           Kings
           ,
           built
           upon
           the
           best
           and
           greatest
           of
           considerations
           ,
           which
           the
           Prophet
           David
           in
           the
           15
           
             th
             Psalm
          
           ,
           if
           it
           had
           not
           been
           (
           as
           it
           is
           )
           beneficiall
           to
           the
           people
           ,
           but
           to
           some
           loss
           or
           damage
           ,
           adviseth
           not
           to
           be
           broken
           )
           and
           enforce
           him
           for
           want
           of
           it
           to
           give
           over
           his
           Housekeeping
           ;
           and
           deprive
           him
           of
           that
           Loadstone
           which
           might
           amongst
           many
           other
           of
           his
           daily
           graces
           and
           favours
           ,
           attract
           and
           draw
           unto
           him
           the
           love
           and
           affections
           of
           his
           people
           ,
           &
           the
           most
           iron
           &
           rusty
           
           hearted
           Clowns
           ;
           or
           leave
           our
           Trajan
           no
           wall
           for
           his
           
             ●erba
             Parietaria
          
           ,
           sweet
           smelling
           flower
           to
           grow
           upon
           .
        
         
           Or
           that
           it
           can
           be
           any
           honour
           for
           our
           Lords
           and
           Ladies
           ,
           who
           received
           their
           honour
           from
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Progenitors
           ,
           
           and
           were
           in
           the
           Saxon
           Times
           called
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           and
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           Lords
           and
           Ladies
           from
           their
           Hospitalities
           ,
           and
           giving
           of
           bread
           ,
           to
           see
           ,
           and
           not
           seek
           or
           help
           to
           remedy
           the
           greatest
           dishonour
           which
           in
           the
           consequence
           of
           it
           was
           ever
           put
           upon
           the
           Fountain
           of
           honour
           and
           a
           King
           of
           
             England
             ,
             in
             Solio
          
           ,
           in
           his
           Throne
           and
           full
           possession
           of
           his
           Kingdome
           ;
           and
           so
           much
           the
           more
           and
           without
           an
           example
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           not
           in
           the
           Time
           of
           a
           Rebellion
           ,
           but
           a
           happy
           Restauration
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Peace
           ,
           after
           an
           end
           or
           conclusion
           of
           an
           intestine
           and
           barbarous
           Warre
           ;
           and
           so
           notorious
           as
           it
           hath
           been
           told
           in
           the
           Streets
           of
           Gath
           and
           Askalon
           ,
           and
           stirred
           up
           some
           unmannerly
           fancies
           and
           pictures
           made
           by
           some
           of
           our
           envious
           Neighbours
           in
           reproach
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           Or
           that
           there
           can
           be
           any
           reason
           that
           those
           that
           think
           it
           reason
           that
           the
           King
           should
           recompence
           them
           for
           their
           losses
           and
           damages
           susteyned
           in
           his
           service
           ,
           in
           doing
           their
           duty
           unto
           him
           ,
           should
           not
           be
           as
           willing
           to
           give
           him
           an
           ease
           in
           his
           losses
           by
           any
           agreement
           made
           with
           them
           ,
           which
           proves
           to
           be
           prejudiciall
           ,
           or
           a
           damage
           unto
           him
           :
           or
           that
           we
           may
           not
           give
           our selves
           in
           assurance
           ,
           that
           the
           Baronage
           of
           England
           ,
           
           who
           in
           a
           Parliament
           in
           the
           20
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Third
           ,
           refused
           to
           consent
           to
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           for
           the
           legitimation
           of
           such
           children
           as
           were
           bot●
           before
           marriage
           to
           Parents
           afterwards
           married
           ,
           and
           clapping
           their
           hands
           upon
           their
           swords
           ,
           cryed
           
             una
             
             voce
          
           ,
           with
           one
           voice
           ,
           
             nolumus
             mutare
             leges
             Angliae
          
           ,
           we
           will
           never
           consent
           to
           change
           the
           laws
           of
           England
           ,
           would
           now
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           living
           ,
           say
           more
           ,
           and
           bewail
           the
           downfall
           of
           the
           Honor
           of
           their
           King
           and
           Country
           :
           And
           not
           only
           they
           ,
           but
           all
           the
           then
           hospitable
           Gentry
           and
           Commonalty
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           Lament
           to
           see
           so
           good
           and
           gracious
           a
           King
           allied
           to
           all
           the
           greatest
           Houses
           ,
           and
           Princely
           Families
           of
           Christendome
           ,
           by
           a
           discent
           farre
           beyond
           the
           most
           antient
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           an
           extraction
           of
           blood
           equalling
           ,
           if
           not
           surpassing
           the
           greatest
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           as
           well
           deserving
           of
           his
           People
           ,
           want
           the
           means
           to
           support
           a
           Magnificence
           as
           high
           and
           illustrious
           as
           any
           of
           his
           Royall
           Progenitors
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           be
           able
           for
           want
           of
           his
           Pourveyance
           to
           give
           his
           Servants
           Diet
           or
           Wages
           ;
           and
           that
           some
           of
           the
           principall
           of
           them
           ,
           
           as
           the
           Treasurer
           and
           Comptroller
           ,
           being
           sworn
           by
           the
           Orders
           of
           the
           House
           ,
           that
           all
           things
           in
           the
           Kings
           House
           be
           
             guided
             to
             the
             Kings
             most
             worship
             ,
             and
             that
             they
             search
             the
             good
             old
             rule
             worshipfull
             and
             profitable
             of
             the
             Kings
             Court
             used
             before
             time
             ,
             and
             them
             to
             keep
             ,
             and
             better
             if
             they
             can
          
           ;
           should
           have
           so
           much
           cause
           as
           they
           have
           to
           weep
           ,
           as
           the
           Priests
           did
           at
           the
           destruction
           of
           the
           Temple
           of
           Jerusalem
           ,
           and
           complaining
           that
           the
           
             beauty
             is
             departed
             from
             the
             Kings
             house
             ,
             his
             Servants
             are
             become
             like
             Harts
             that
             find
             no
             Pasture
             ,
             and
             they
             that
             did
             ,
             feed
             plentifully
             are
             desolate
             in
             the
             Streets
             .
          
        
         
           Wonder
           what
           wild
           Boar
           out
           of
           the
           Forrest
           ,
           or
           Fox
           out
           of
           the
           Wood
           have
           so
           destroyed
           and
           laid
           wast
           the
           Vineyards
           and
           the
           Gardens
           ,
           the
           
             Beds
             of
             Spices
          
           ,
           the
           
             Roses
             of
             Sharon
          
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Lilies
             of
             the
             Vallies
          
           ;
           that
           some
           of
           our
           Temples
           should
           be
           gloriously
           re-edified
           ,
           and
           our
           Zion
           repaired
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           glory
           of
           our
           Solomon
           and
           his
           
           housekeeping
           not
           restored
           ,
           but
           his
           Servants
           ruined
           and
           their
           names
           ,
           as
           to
           their
           pay
           and
           maintenance
           blotted
           out
           of
           the
           Registers
           ,
           
           that
           the
           
             Winter
             should
             be
             past
             ,
             the
             Rain
             over
             and
             gone
             ,
             the
             Flowers
             appear
             on
             the
             earth
             ,
             the
             time
             of
             the
             singing
             of
             the
             Birds
             come
             ,
             and
             the
             voyce
             of
             the
             Turtle
             heard
             in
             our
             Land
          
           ;
           and
           the
           State
           and
           Magnificence
           of
           our
           Solomon
           and
           his
           Royall
           housekeeping
           ,
           which
           would
           have
           heretofore
           astonished
           a
           Queen
           of
           Sheba
           ,
           should
           be
           now
           most
           needlesly
           exchanged
           for
           a
           desolation
           ,
           and
           bear
           all
           the
           marks
           upon
           it
           of
           a
           languishing
           Honour
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Courts
           and
           Palace
           of
           our
           most
           gracious
           King
           Charles
           the
           Second
           ,
           by
           a
           mischance
           of
           quitting
           his
           Rights
           of
           Prae-emption
           and
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           should
           as
           to
           many
           of
           its
           Attendants
           ,
           have
           all
           the
           year
           turned
           into
           an
           Ember
           week
           ,
           and
           be
           about
           Noon
           or
           Dinner
           time
           ,
           like
           the
           silence
           and
           want
           of
           Company
           at
           Midnight
           ;
           or
           a
           representation
           of
           the
           middle
           Isle
           of
           the
           Cathedrall
           of
           St.
           Pauls
           in
           London
           ,
           destitute
           of
           all
           its
           Walkers
           or
           Company
           but
           such
           as
           had
           nothing
           to
           buy
           their
           Dinner
           withall
           ;
           which
           heretofore
           begot
           the
           reproachfull
           adage
           or
           saying
           usually
           cast
           upon
           such
           men
           of
           distress
           and
           necessity
           ,
           that
           they
           dined
           with
           Duke
           Humphrey
           upon
           a
           Traditional
           mistake
           ,
           that
           the
           Monument
           of
           Humphrey
           Duke
           of
           Glocester
           was
           in
           the
           middle
           Isle
           of
           St.
           Pauls
           Church
           in
           London
           ,
           when
           it
           appears
           by
           the
           Armes
           engraven
           therein
           to
           be
           a
           Beuchamp
           Earl
           of
           Warwick
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           the
           King
           of
           
             England
             ,
             Scotland
             ,
             France
          
           and
           Ireland
           should
           be
           necessitated
           to
           make
           a
           small
           Room
           in
           
             White
             hall
          
           ,
           a
           place
           to
           eat
           his
           meat
           in
           ,
           and
           be
           contented
           with
           ten
           dishes
           of
           meat
           for
           the
           first
           and
           second
           Courses
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           his
           Royall
           Consort
           at
           Dinner
           ,
           
           when
           most
           of
           the
           Nobility
           have
           as
           much
           or
           more
           ,
           and
           the
           richest
           part
           of
           the
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           most
           of
           the
           rich
           Merchants
           and
           Tradesmen
           of
           London
           do
           not
           think
           such
           a
           proportion
           in
           their
           ordinary
           way
           of
           Diet
           to
           be
           more
           then
           sufficient
           .
        
         
           And
           might
           remember
           that
           the
           Royall
           Pourveyance
           is
           ,
           and
           hath
           been
           as
           well
           due
           to
           a
           Prince
           in
           his
           Palace
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           Field
           or
           his
           Tents
           ,
           and
           more
           deserved
           by
           a
           Prince
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Peace
           ,
           and
           protecting
           us
           in
           the
           blessings
           enjoyed
           by
           it
           ,
           then
           it
           is
           ,
           or
           can
           be
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Warre
           ,
           when
           every
           man
           is
           willing
           enough
           to
           offer
           it
           to
           a
           marching
           Army
           ,
           that
           doth
           but
           hope
           and
           endeavour
           to
           defend
           them
           .
           And
           that
           God
           was
           so
           displeased
           with
           the
           refusers
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           he
           resolved
           ,
           that
           an
           Ammonite
           or
           Moabite
           should
           never
           enter
           into
           his
           holy
           and
           blessed
           Congregation
           ,
           because
           
             they
             met
             not
             the
             children
             of
             Israel
             with
             bread
             and
             water
             in
             the
             way
             when
             they
             came
             forth
             out
             of
             Egypt
             .
          
           
        
         
           That
           it
           was
           reckoned
           as
           a
           crime
           upon
           the
           People
           of
           Israel
           ,
           
           that
           they
           shewed
           not
           kindness
           to
           the
           house
           of
           Zerubbaal
           ,
           namely
           
             Gideon
             ,
             according
             to
             all
             the
             goodness
             which
             he
             shewed
             unto
             Israel
             .
          
        
         
           That
           it
           was
           not
           only
           Solomons
           stately
           Throne
           of
           
             Ivory
             over-laid
             with
             the
             best
             Gold
             ,
          
           
           
             adorned
             with
             the
             Images
             of
             golden
             Lions
             ,
             that
             supported
             it
             ,
          
           nor
           the
           
             Forty
             thousand
             stalles
             of
             horses
             for
             his
             Chariots
             ,
          
           and
           
             twelve
             thousand
             Horsemen
             ,
             and
             the
             Tributes
             and
             Presents
             sent
             from
             many
             of
             the
             Nations
             round
             about
             him
             ,
          
           but
           his
           Royall
           Pourveyance
           and
           Provision
           for
           his
           Houshold
           ,
           
             the
             meat
             of
             his
             Table
             ,
             sitting
             of
             his
             Servants
             ,
          
           the
           manner
           of
           their
           sitting
           at
           meat
           ;
           
             and
             the
             attendance
             of
             his
             Ministers
             and
             their
             Apparel
             ,
          
           which
           among
           many
           other
           necessary
           Circumstances
           of
           State
           and
           Emanations
           
           of
           Power
           and
           Majesty
           ,
           joyned
           with
           the
           other
           parts
           of
           his
           Regall
           Magnificence
           ,
           raised
           the
           wonder
           in
           the
           Queen
           of
           Sheba
           ,
           and
           took
           away
           her
           spirits
           from
           her
           .
        
         
           That
           to
           overburden
           our
           Head
           ,
           or
           heap
           necessities
           upon
           him
           ,
           may
           bring
           us
           within
           the
           blame
           and
           censure
           of
           the
           Judicious
           Bodin
           ,
           a
           man
           not
           meanly
           learned
           in
           Politiques
           ,
           
           who
           decrying
           all
           unbecoming
           Parsimonies
           in
           a
           King
           or
           his
           Family
           ,
           delivers
           his
           opinion
           ,
           that
           
             sine
             Majestatis
             ipsius
             contemptu
             fieri
             non
             potest
             ea
             res
             enim
             peregrinos
             ad
             principem
             aspernandum
             ,
             &
             subditos
             ad
             deficiendum
             excitare
             consuevit
             ,
          
           that
           to
           lessen
           the
           number
           of
           a
           Kings
           Servants
           ,
           or
           Attendants
           cannot
           be
           done
           without
           a
           contempt
           or
           diminution
           of
           Majesty
           it self
           ,
           which
           may
           cause
           Strangers
           to
           despise
           him
           ,
           and
           his
           own
           Subjects
           to
           rebell
           against
           him
           .
        
         
           That
           our
           Ancestors
           the
           Germans
           did
           well
           understand
           what
           a
           benefit
           the
           Common
           people
           had
           by
           the
           Princes
           Honour
           and
           Reputation
           ,
           when
           they
           were
           so
           zealous
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           
             ipsa
             plerunque
             fama
             belli
             profligant
          
           ,
           many
           times
           found
           it
           to
           be
           a
           cause
           of
           lessening
           or
           preventing
           Warres
           .
           
           And
           St.
           Hicrom
           was
           not
           mistaken
           when
           he
           concluded
           ,
           that
           
             ubi
             honor
             non
             est
             ,
             ibi
             contemptus
             ,
             ubi
             contemptus
             ,
             ibi
             frequens
             injuria
             ,
             &
             ubi
             indignatio
             ,
             ibi
             quies
             nulla
          
           ;
           where
           there
           is
           not
           honour
           there
           is
           contempt
           ▪
           and
           where
           there
           is
           contempt
           there
           are
           Injuries
           ,
           
           and
           where
           anger
           and
           wrath
           are
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           manner
           of
           quiet
           .
           That
           it
           must
           needs
           be
           a
           Prognostick
           of
           a
           most
           certain
           ruine
           to
           the
           Nation
           to
           be
           so
           addicted
           to
           our
           pride
           and
           vanities
           ,
           as
           to
           take
           all
           we
           can
           from
           the
           head
           to
           bestow
           it
           upon
           the
           more
           ignoble
           and
           inferiour
           Members
           :
           Or
           to
           be
           so
           infatuated
           ,
           and
           so
           farre
           fallen
           out
           with
           reason
           ,
           as
           to
           believe
           that
           they
           can
           enjoy
           either
           health
           or
           safety
           ,
           when
           the
           Head
           hath
           that
           taken
           from
           it
           ,
           which
           should
           procure
           it
           .
        
         
         
           That
           our
           Ancestors
           who
           were
           so
           great
           Observers
           of
           their
           duties
           in
           the
           payment
           of
           their
           Tithes
           ,
           as
           to
           take
           more
           then
           an
           ordinary
           care
           to
           give
           and
           bequeath
           at
           their
           deaths
           a
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           
           or
           
             Symbolum
             Animae
          
           ,
           as
           a
           Mortuary
           or
           Compensation
           
             pro
             substracti●ne
             decim●rum
             person●lium
             ▪
             nec
             non
             oblationum
             ,
          
           for
           Tithes
           and
           Offerings
           (
           the
           Pourveyance
           for
           those
           which
           served
           at
           the
           Alta●
           )
           negligently
           or
           against
           their
           wills
           forgotten
           ,
           &
           to
           such
           a
           value
           as
           their
           
             dextrarium
             ferro
             coopertum
          
           ,
           best
           horse
           carrying
           the
           Armes
           (
           not
           Escutcheons
           )
           of
           its
           Lords
           and
           Master
           ;
           or
           if
           the
           party
           deceasing
           were
           no●
           of
           so
           great
           an
           estate
           ,
           gave
           
             meliorem
             bovem
          
           ,
           his
           best
           Oxe
           ,
           and
           with
           such
           a
           solemnity
           as
           those
           or
           the
           like
           Mortuaries
           were
           led
           or
           driven
           before
           the
           Corps
           when
           it
           was
           carried
           to
           be
           interred
           ;
           or
           if
           not
           given
           in
           specie
           ,
           were
           sure
           to
           be
           redeemed
           with
           money
           ;
           of
           which
           
             Thomas
             de
             Bello
             Campo
          
           Earl
           of
           
             Warwick
             ,
             in
             anno
          
           43
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Third
           was
           so
           mindfull
           ,
           as
           he
           did
           by
           his
           last
           Will
           and
           Testament
           ,
           
           give
           to
           every
           Church
           within
           his
           multitude
           of
           Manours
           his
           best
           Beast
           which
           should
           then
           be
           found
           ,
           in
           satisfaction
           of
           his
           Tithes
           forgotten
           to
           be
           paid
           ,
           would
           ever
           have
           made
           it
           their
           business
           to
           withdraw
           or
           hinder
           their
           Oblations
           and
           Duty
           of
           Pourveyance
           to
           God
           Almighties
           Vicegerent
           ,
           the
           Keeper
           of
           both
           Tables
           ,
           and
           the
           Protector
           of
           them
           ;
           or
           rejoyce
           in
           the
           Bargain
           which
           hath
           been
           made
           for
           the
           Kings
           acquittal
           of
           it
           ;
           or
           by
           plowing
           over
           the
           roots
           or
           by
           the
           filthy
           smoke
           and
           vapours
           of
           some
           particular
           private
           ugly
           Interests
           ,
           have
           rejoyced
           in
           blasting
           and
           destroying
           that
           Royall
           Oak
           of
           Hospitality
           ,
           which
           like
           the
           mighty
           Tree
           in
           Nebuchadnezars
           Vision
           
             reached
             unto
             Heaven
          
           ,
           
           
             and
             the
             sight
             thereof
             to
             the
             ends
             of
             all
             the
             Earth
             ,
             had
             fair
             leaves
             and
             much
             fruit
             ,
             yielding
             meat
             for
             many
             ;
             
             under
             which
             the
             Beasts
             of
             the
             field
             dwelt
             ,
             and
             upon
             whose
             branches
             the
             F●wls
             of
             heaven
             had
             their
             habitation
             ,
          
           to
           the
           end
           they
           might
           make
           their
           own
           fi●es
           ,
           and
           wa●me
           themselves
           by
           the
           withered
           and
           dead
           boughs
           and
           branches
           thereof
           .
        
         
           Or
           that
           the
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           who
           were
           wont
           so
           much
           to
           reverence
           and
           love
           their
           Kings
           ,
           and
           to
           remember
           benefits
           and
           favours
           received
           from
           them
           ,
           as
           to
           give
           Lands
           and
           other
           Hereditaments
           in
           pe●petuity
           to
           pray
           for
           the
           health
           of
           their
           Kings
           ,
           
           as
           amongst
           many
           others
           which
           may
           be
           instanced
           ,
           
             Ivo
             Tallebois
             post
             decessum
          
           Gulielmi
           
             Anglorum
             Regis
             donavit
             Deo
             &
             sancto
          
           N●cholao
           
             pro
             animabus
             ipsius
             Regis
             ac
             Regine
          
           Matildae
           
             uxoris
             ejus
             ad
             augmentum
             victus
             Monachorum
             sanctae
          
           Mariae
           de
           Spalding
           
             decimam
             Thelonei
             &
             Salinarum
             de
          
           Spalding
           ,
           gave
           t●e
           Tenth
           of
           his
           Tolls
           and
           Salt-pi●s
           to
           pray
           for
           the
           souls
           of
           William
           the
           Conqueror
           and
           Queen
           Matilda
           his
           Wife
           .
        
         
           
             Mauserus
             Biset
          
           ,
           Sewer
           to
           King
           Henry
           the
           First
           ,
           gave
           likewise
           in
           perpetual
           Almes
           22
           Acres
           of
           Land
           ,
           
           and
           half
           of
           a
           Mar●e-pit
           ,
           to
           pray
           for
           the
           souls
           of
           his
           Lord
           King
           Henry
           ,
           and
           of
           him
           ,
           and
           his
           Wife
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           
             Geffrey
             de
             Clinto●
          
           did
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Third
           ,
           and
           
             William
             de
             Whaplode
          
           in
           or
           about
           the
           27
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Sixth
           ,
           should
           be
           so
           willing
           to
           un-English
           themselves
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           loathsome
           and
           ugly
           ingratitude
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           saving
           &
           sparing
           of
           so
           inconsiderable
           an
           yearly
           charge
           ,
           as
           their
           Oblations
           in
           the
           Royal
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           amounted
           unto
           ,
           make
           us
           to
           be
           every
           day
           more
           and
           more
           a
           by-word
           ,
           reproch
           ,
           and
           scorn
           to
           the
           Nations
           round
           about
           us
           ,
           and
           entail
           upon
           us
           those
           dishonors
           ,
           mischiefs
           ,
           inconveniences
           damages
           and
           accumulations
           
           of
           evils
           ,
           which
           may
           sooner
           be
           foreseen
           and
           prevented
           then
           remedied
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           fasten
           it
           on
           ,
           and
           be
           very
           sure
           not
           to
           fail
           of
           it
           ,
           will
           be
           content
           so
           as
           with
           the
           rich
           man
           in
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           they
           may
           fare
           diliciously
           ,
           live
           wantonly
           ,
           and
           give
           entertainment
           to
           all
           their
           excesses
           of
           pride
           and
           vanity
           ,
           to
           make
           themselves
           slaves
           to
           sin
           ,
           and
           fool
           away
           their
           happiness
           :
           and
           if
           Lazarus
           be
           after
           his
           death
           carried
           with
           Angels
           into
           Abrahams
           bosome
           ,
           it
           shall
           never
           trouble
           them
           untill
           death
           ,
           and
           the
           fate
           of
           mortality
           shall
           bring
           them
           to
           be
           at
           leisure
           to
           think
           better
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           Can
           without
           any
           remorse
           of
           conscience
           ,
           fear
           of
           Hell
           ,
           honor
           and
           welfare
           of
           their
           Nation
           ,
           care
           of
           Heaven
           after
           ages
           or
           posterity
           ,
           see
           the
           piety
           good
           old
           virtues
           Customes
           and
           Manners
           of
           England
           murdered
           ,
           and
           do
           all
           that
           they
           can
           to
           extirp
           and
           destroy
           them
           root
           and
           branch
           .
        
         
           And
           whilst
           too
           many
           of
           our
           Gentry
           can
           leave
           the
           Jack-daws
           to
           be
           Stewards
           of
           their
           formerly
           better
           employed
           stately
           well-built
           houses
           in
           the
           Country
           ,
           bring
           their
           Wives
           and
           Children
           to
           London
           ,
           and
           make
           some
           little
           Lodgings
           ,
           or
           hou●es
           there
           to
           be
           their
           residence
           to
           learn
           what
           vices
           are
           most
           in
           fashion
           ;
           spend
           fifty
           or
           one
           hundred
           pounds
           at
           a
           time
           in
           a
           Treatment
           or
           Tavern
           at
           London
           ,
           and
           be
           cheated
           and
           cozened
           an
           half
           or
           a
           third
           part
           in
           the
           reckoning
           ,
           make
           a
           Feast
           at
           their
           Lodgings
           or
           Houses
           enough
           to
           puzle
           Lucullus
           ,
           or
           Vitellius
           ,
           Cooks
           or
           Professors
           in
           the
           Art
           of
           Gluttony
           at
           three
           or
           five
           hundred
           pounds
           charges
           .
           have
           their
           
             Oleo's
             Haut
             gousts
             Ambiges
          
           ,
           costly
           Gallimauphries
           ,
           or
           
             Hotch
             potches
          
           laid
           altogether
           in
           a
           dish
           ,
           and
           that
           dish
           so
           big
           as
           the
           door
           must
           needs
           be
           taken
           off
           the
           hinges
           to
           make
           a
           stately
           passage
           to
           bring
           it
           
           in
           ;
           and
           after
           some
           hours
           spent
           in
           heightning
           and
           pleasing
           their
           appetites
           ,
           and
           adoring
           Bacchus
           their
           drunken
           Diety
           ,
           can
           let
           some
           of
           their
           Mortgaged
           Mannors
           and
           Lands
           run
           about
           the
           streets
           by
           day
           and
           night
           ,
           in
           Coaches
           with
           dores
           and
           glass
           Windows
           ,
           and
           be
           at
           the
           yearly
           charges
           of
           maintaining
           a
           couple
           or
           more
           of
           Coach-horses
           ,
           as
           much
           fatted
           and
           pampered
           more
           then
           needs
           to
           be
           ,
           as
           would
           provide
           more
           then
           a
           yoke
           or
           two
           of
           fat
           Oxen
           to
           kill
           at
           Christmas
           ,
           when
           they
           shall
           be
           so
           good
           as
           to
           observe
           such
           Christian
           Festivals
           ;
           and
           instead
           of
           four
           or
           six
           proper
           serving
           men
           ,
           as
           their
           old
           hospitable
           Grand●ires
           had
           in
           constant
           pay
           or
           salary
           to
           attend
           ,
           or
           fight
           for
           them
           ,
           upon
           no
           Tavern
           or
           Alehouse
           ●ray
           ,
           or
           Quarrels
           ,
           but
           just
           occasions
           ,
           have
           only
           one
           or
           two
           Foot-boyes
           dressed
           up
           like
           some
           ridiculous
           Antiques
           to
           wait
           upon
           the
           Coach
           ,
           by
           getting
           up
           before
           or
           behind
           it
           .
        
         
           Can
           see
           virtue
           and
           honestly
           only
           laid
           up
           in
           Books
           and
           Speculations
           ,
           and
           be
           read
           as
           Romances
           and
           things
           impracticable
           ;
           truth
           reason
           ,
           and
           conscience
           greatly
           talked
           of
           and
           a
           part
           of
           almost
           every
           mans
           daily
           pretences
           ,
           but
           used
           as
           vagabonds
           incertilaris
           without
           any
           habitations
           ,
           and
           very
           little
           to
           be
           seen
           ,
           but
           the
           names
           of
           them
           made
           use
           of
           (
           as
           the
           Gibeonites
           did
           their
           mouldy
           bread
           ,
           old
           shoes
           and
           garments
           )
           only
           for
           the
           people
           to
           cozen
           and
           cheat
           one
           another
           .
           Trade
           ,
           the
           great
           Diana
           of
           our
           Ephesus
           ,
           by
           a
           strange
           abuse
           of
           it
           ,
           come
           to
           be
           the
           greatest
           cheat
           ,
           oppression
           and
           tyranny
           of
           the
           Nation
           ;
           and
           Gods
           providence
           vouched
           for
           their
           thriving
           by
           it
           ;
           the
           numbers
           of
           the
           poor
           and
           oppressed
           daily
           multiplyed
           ,
           pri●e
           ,
           knavery
           ,
           cheating
           and
           complement
           ,
           those
           
             termini
             convertibiles
          
           (
           not
           mercy
           and
           truth
           )
           kissing
           each
           other
           ,
           and
           making
           a
           League
           to
           cozen
           and
           deceive
           all
           
           such
           as
           are
           not
           of
           their
           trim
           society
           .
        
         
           
           And
           whilst
           they
           are
           
             chanting
             to
             the
             sound
             of
             the
             viols
             ,
             drinking
             wine
             in
             Boules
             and
             stretching
             themselves
             upon
             their
             Couches
             ,
          
           can
           without
           any
           brotherly
           kindness
           or
           compassion
           behold
           the
           
             sighing
             of
             the
             poor
             and
             needy
             ,
             the
             widows
             and
             the
             fatherless
             ,
          
           the
           misery
           of
           multitudes
           and
           
             those
             that
             have
             none
             to
             help
             them
             ,
             will
             not
             deal
             their
             bread
             to
             the
             hungry
             ▪
             nor
             bring
             the
             poor
             which
             are
             cast
             out
             into
             their
             houses
             ,
          
           
           
             will
             not
             cover
             the
             naked
             ,
             but
             hide
             themselves
             from
             their
             own
             flesh
             ;
             will
             not
             undo
             the
             heavy
             burdens
             ,
             nor
             let
             the
             oppressed
             go
             free
             .
          
        
         
           But
           do
           all
           that
           they
           can
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           banish
           the
           Kings
           hospitality
           ,
           and
           his
           accustomed
           Royalties
           and
           magnificence
           from
           his
           Court
           and
           Palaces
           ;
           and
           as
           if
           he
           and
           his
           Servants
           were
           in
           a
           continual
           ●it
           of
           a
           fever
           ,
           enforce
           them
           by
           withholding
           his
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           (
           whilst
           they
           themselves
           do
           feast
           and
           revel
           in
           their
           own
           houses
           )
           to
           a
           thinne
           and
           sparing
           diet
           ;
           and
           as
           to
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           none
           at
           all
           ,
           but
           to
           destroy
           the
           greatest
           and
           best
           part
           of
           the
           Hospitality
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           which
           was
           wont
           to
           make
           those
           
             su●ves
             &
             potentes
             benificentiae
             nexus
             quibus
             seu
             compedibus
             animi
             illig●ntur
             ,
          
           those
           gratefull
           (
           as
           Marsellaer
           very
           well
           observeth
           )
           impressions
           of
           benefits
           ,
           
           which
           do
           as
           it
           were
           charme
           and
           oblige
           the
           minds
           and
           affections
           of
           mankind
           :
           A
           custome
           so
           antient
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           no
           stranger●
           to
           Abraham
           ,
           the
           friend
           of
           God
           ,
           when
           he
           sitting
           in
           his
           Tent
           dore
           in
           the
           Plains
           of
           Mamre
           ,
           invited
           the
           three
           then
           unknown
           Angels
           ,
           and
           feasted
           them
           ;
           nor
           to
           the
           Father
           of
           the
           Excellent
           meek
           and
           humble
           Rebecca
           ,
           when
           as
           Abrahams
           Servant
           or
           Embassadour
           was
           so
           well
           as
           he
           was
           enterteyned
           before
           it
           ,
           was
           known
           from
           whence
           he
           came
           ,
           and
           what
           his
           message
           was
           ,
           and
           which
           the
           Jews
           
           ever
           after
           were
           so
           unwilling
           to
           part
           with
           as
           the
           good
           Nehemiah
           many
           ages
           after
           could
           in
           his
           then
           no
           great
           plenty
           or
           felicity
           ,
           
             keep
             a
             great
             house
             ,
             hospitality
             ,
          
           
           
             and
             many
             tables
             ,
             aswell
             for
             the
             Heathen
             ,
             as
          
           150
           
             of
             the
             Jews
             and
             Rulers
          
           ,
           and
           hath
           been
           justly
           accompted
           to
           be
           such
           a
           religious
           duty
           ,
           as
           St.
           Paul
           allowed
           of
           the
           Agapes
           love
           or
           neighbourly
           Feasts
           ,
           and
           exhorted
           the
           
             Hebrews
             to
             let
             bro●therly
             love
             continue
             ,
          
           
           
             and
             not
             to
             be
             forgetfull
             to
             entertain
             strangers
             ;
             for
             thereby
             some
          
           (
           meaning
           their
           old
           father
           
             Abraham
             )
             have
             unawares
             entertained
             Angels
             .
          
        
         
           And
           being
           the
           love
           and
           delight
           of
           the
           Almighty
           that
           gave
           us
           all
           good
           things
           which
           we
           possesse
           ,
           was
           also
           the
           Treasury
           and
           keeper
           of
           the
           peoples
           love
           ;
           and
           as
           much
           as
           concerned
           peace
           ,
           and
           good
           will
           unto
           men
           ,
           a
           part
           of
           the
           blessed
           song
           of
           the
           Angels
           at
           the
           Birth
           of
           our
           Redeemer
           ;
           and
           in
           our
           Ancestors
           dayes
           was
           best
           of
           all
           supported
           by
           a
           generous
           and
           well
           ordered
           frugality
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           old
           Romans
           held
           to
           be
           so
           Essential
           to
           government
           ,
           as
           they
           spared
           no
           cost
           in
           their
           Epulis
           ,
           or
           Caresses
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           and
           was
           for
           many
           Ages
           past
           congeniall
           and
           connatural
           to
           the
           English
           Nation
           ,
           who
           are
           abundantly
           taken
           with
           it
           ,
           and
           justly
           accompted
           to
           be
           such
           an
           handmaid
           to
           Piety
           ,
           as
           Geffery
           Earl
           of
           Essex
           ,
           and
           Eustace
           his
           Wife
           did
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           second
           grant
           to
           the
           Nunnery
           of
           
             Clarkenwell
             totam
             decimam
             totius
             victus
             &
             procurationis
          
           (
           provisions
           saith
           the
           Learned
           Sir
           
             Henry
             Spelman
             )
             illorum
             &
             domus
             suae
             &
             familiae
             suae
             ,
          
           
           
           the
           Tithe
           or
           Tenths
           of
           all
           the
           victuals
           and
           provisions
           of
           their
           house
           and
           family
           .
        
         
           And
           Maud
           of
           Mandevill
           Countesse
           of
           Essex
           and
           Hertford
           ,
           
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           H.
           3.
           confirming
           the
           said
           Grant
           ,
           doth
           it
           in
           more
           express
           words
           ,
           
             viz.
             ubicunque
             fuerimus
             de
             panibus
             &
             potibus
             ,
             &
             carnibus
             &
             
             etiam
             de
             piscibus
             ,
          
           wheresoever
           they
           should
           be
           of
           bread
           ,
           drink
           ,
           fl●sh
           ,
           and
           fish
           :
           And
           was
           such
           an
           effect
           of
           the
           magnificence
           &
           grandeur
           of
           the
           minds
           of
           the
           English
           Nobility
           ,
           as
           Roger
           Earl
           of
           Warwick
           in
           the
           23.
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           first
           did
           grant
           unto
           Richard
           the
           Son
           of
           Jvo
           his
           Cook
           ,
           afterwards
           taking
           the
           Sirname
           of
           Woodlow
           from
           their
           residence
           at
           Woodlow
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Warwick
           (
           besides
           the
           Mannor
           of
           Woodlow
           with
           divers
           Lands
           and
           Priviledges
           thereunto
           belonging
           ;
           and
           a
           Yard
           land
           in
           Cotes
           in
           the
           County
           aforesaid
           ,
           given
           by
           the
           said
           Earle
           to
           him
           and
           his
           heirs
           )
           the
           Office
           of
           Master
           Cook
           in
           his
           Kitchin
           to
           him
           and
           his
           Heirs
           ,
           
           which
           his
           Father
           theretofore
           held
           with
           all
           Fees
           of
           his
           Kitchen
           belonging
           to
           the
           Master
           Cook
           both
           in
           Liveries
           and
           Horses
           ,
           as
           the
           Esquires
           of
           his
           Houshold
           then
           had
           ,
           of
           which
           Alan
           the
           Son
           of
           that
           Richard
           being
           also
           in
           the
           said
           Office
           in
           the
           house
           of
           William
           Earl
           of
           Warwick
           Son
           of
           the
           said
           Earl
           Roger
           ,
           who
           it
           seems
           could
           produce
           no
           Charter
           in
           writing
           thereof
           ,
           obtained
           a
           grant
           and
           confirmation
           of
           the
           said
           
             William
             Earl
          
           of
           Warwick
           of
           the
           said
           Mannor
           ,
           Lands
           ,
           and
           Office
           ,
           for
           which
           the
           said
           Alan
           gave
           unto
           the
           Earl
           ten
           shillings
           in
           money
           ,
           twelve
           Ge●se
           ,
           and
           a
           Fikin
           of
           Wine
           ;
           And
           a
           late
           experience
           ,
           (
           if
           antiquity
           had
           been
           altogether
           silent
           )
           of
           the
           benefits
           which
           do
           come
           by
           it
           ,
           hath
           sufficiently
           declared
           unto
           us
           the
           no
           dull
           operation
           or
           impulse
           of
           it
           ,
           in
           that
           since
           the
           happy
           Restoration
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           second
           ,
           and
           the
           Kingly
           Gove●nment
           ,
           a
           Gentleman
           high
           born
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           great
           ●xtraction
           retiring
           into
           a
           Country
           where
           some
           part
           of
           his
           Estate
           doth
           lye
           ,
           about
           one
           hundred
           miles
           from
           London
           ,
           did
           by
           an
           Housekeeping
           and
           Hospitality
           becoming
           him
           ,
           and
           his
           great
           Ancestors
           so
           winne
           the
           hearts
           and
           love
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           
           though
           they
           were
           of
           a
           different
           Judgement
           and
           profession
           of
           Religion
           ,
           which
           usually
           bege●s
           more
           animosities
           and
           ill
           will
           then
           it
           should
           do
           ,
           as
           he
           became
           their
           darling
           whilst
           he
           was
           with
           them
           ,
           and
           their
           sorrow
           and
           cause
           of
           tolling
           their
           Bells
           backwards
           ,
           as
           a
           signe
           of
           some
           disaster
           ,
           when
           he
           had
           occasion
           for
           a
           little
           while
           to
           leave
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           a
           Gentleman
           ,
           or
           
             Faber
             fortun●
             suae
          
           ,
           one
           that
           but
           lately
           had
           made
           his
           fortunes
           ,
           in
           as
           remote
           a
           Country
           from
           London
           ,
           and
           of
           some
           new
           fangled
           opinions
           in
           Religion
           distastfull
           enough
           to
           many
           in
           his
           Neighbourhood
           ,
           did
           only
           by
           a
           charity
           of
           giving
           unto
           some
           numbers
           of
           poor
           people
           of
           the
           place
           wherein
           he
           lived
           ,
           Beef
           and
           Pottage
           at
           his
           door
           twice
           or
           thrice
           every
           week
           in
           the
           year
           ,
           so
           gain
           the
           love
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           as
           they
           that
           would
           not
           otherwise
           have
           shewed
           him
           any
           love
           or
           favour
           ,
           did
           not
           deny
           him
           either
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           When
           as
           too
           many
           can
           lay
           aside
           and
           neglect
           the
           care
           of
           obliging
           and
           gaining
           the
           hearts
           and
           affections
           of
           their
           Neighbours
           and
           Tenants
           ,
           and
           making
           any
           shift
           to
           furnish
           and
           provide
           the
           excess
           and
           sinfull
           superfluities
           both
           of
           the
           belly
           and
           the
           back
           ,
           will
           not
           let
           the
           belly
           want
           it
           ,
           nor
           the
           back
           be
           without
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           those
           that
           have
           no
           mind
           or
           will
           to
           pay
           or
           make
           the
           King
           any
           recompence
           for
           his
           Pourveyance
           or
           Compositions
           ,
           can
           without
           any
           grudging
           see
           the
           Pourveyance
           of
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           that
           Queen
           that
           sitteth
           like
           the
           afterwards
           unhappy
           City
           of
           Tire
           upon
           many
           waters
           covereth
           all
           our
           Island
           ,
           and
           her
           Citizens
           by
           seeking
           to
           buy
           as
           cheap
           as
           they
           can
           ,
           and
           to
           adulterate
           as
           much
           as
           they
           can
           ,
           and
           sell
           as
           dear
           as
           they
           doe
           ,
           all
           their
           wares
           &
           commodities
           ,
           can
           make
           a
           costly
           enhance
           of
           all
           manner
           of
           houshold
           provisions
           ,
           and
           extending
           their
           desires
           
           and
           attempts
           for
           that
           purpose
           to
           the
           remotest
           parts
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           do
           by
           ingrossings
           ,
           combinations
           ,
           and
           other
           unlawfull
           Artifices
           of
           Trade
           ,
           bring
           the
           fatness
           of
           the
           Flock
           ,
           and
           the
           delicacies
           of
           Sea
           and
           Land
           to
           feed
           and
           furnish
           out
           the
           Luxuries
           of
           her
           own
           Inhabitants
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           have
           a
           will
           to
           be
           infected
           with
           it
           ,
           and
           make
           the
           whole
           Island
           to
           be
           too
           little
           to
           maintain
           her
           vice
           and
           avarice
           ,
           insomuch
           as
           Salmons
           ,
           which
           at
           Monmouth
           ,
           being
           above
           100
           miles
           distant
           from
           London
           ,
           were
           wont
           to
           be
           sold
           there
           for
           
             ten
             groats
          
           a
           piece
           ,
           are
           now
           before
           hand
           bespoke
           and
           bought
           up
           by
           some
           Londoners
           ,
           or
           their
           Agents
           for
           
             ten
             shillings
          
           a
           piece
           ,
           and
           the
           Towns-men
           that
           did
           before
           e●joy
           a
           priviledge
           that
           all
           the
           Salmons
           brought
           to
           that
           Market
           should
           be
           first
           brought
           to
           the
           Kings
           Bord
           ,
           and
           no
           Forreigner
           suffered
           to
           buy
           any
           untill
           the
           Town
           were
           first
           served
           ,
           can
           now
           see
           themselves
           bereaved
           of
           their
           Prae-emption
           as
           well
           as
           the
           King
           is
           ,
           whose
           Progenitors
           did
           at
           the
           first
           bestow
           it
           upon
           them
           .
        
         
           In
           Lincolnshire
           ,
           above
           70
           or
           80
           miles
           from
           London
           ,
           do
           so
           ingross
           and
           precontract
           for
           all
           wild
           fowl
           ,
           Ducks
           and
           Mallards
           ,
           as
           the
           Gentry
           of
           that
           Country
           where
           they
           are
           bred
           ,
           and
           should
           have
           some
           cheapness
           &
           plenty
           of
           them
           ,
           are
           resolving
           to
           be
           Petitioners
           to
           the
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           at
           the
           next
           Quarter-Sessions
           ,
           that
           the
           Heglers
           and
           men
           of
           London
           may
           not
           be
           suffered
           to
           raise
           the
           p●ices
           of
           their
           Wild-fowl
           ,
           nor
           carry
           them
           out
           of
           the
           Count●y
           untill
           it
           be
           first
           served
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           if
           all
           were
           not
           enough
           to
           enrich
           themselves
           ,
           and
           undo
           others
           ,
           can
           upon
           any
           accident
           or
           occasion
           ,
           or
           but
           a
           supposi●●on
           of
           things
           which
           may
           happen
           ,
           make
           and
           dresse
           up
           their
           pretences
           and
           supposed
           causes
           of
           p●ices
           to
           be
           ra●sed
           and
           e●hanced
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           
           oppression
           and
           burden
           of
           all
           that
           are
           to
           buy
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           but
           upon
           a
           late
           likelihood
           of
           Warres
           betwixt
           us
           and
           the
           Netherland
           united
           Belgick
           Provinces
           ,
           whilst
           we
           are
           Masters
           of
           the
           Seas
           ,
           and
           not
           under
           any
           probability
           of
           having
           our
           Seas
           disquieted
           ,
           or
           Trade
           interrupted
           ,
           have
           so
           greatly
           before
           hand
           raised
           the
           rates
           and
           prices
           of
           Sea-coal
           ,
           Sprats
           ,
           Salt
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           part
           of
           transmarine
           Commodities
           ,
           as
           they
           that
           shall
           believe
           that
           those
           and
           many
           more
           of
           their
           exactions
           which
           they
           will
           put
           and
           enforce
           upon
           the
           people
           by
           reason
           of
           a
           probability
           of
           that
           Warre
           ,
           will
           without
           any
           just
           cause
           or
           reason
           for
           it
           in
           a
           short
           time
           amount
           unto
           more
           then
           
             six
             hundred
             thousand
             pounds
          
           ,
           may
           well
           be
           understood
           neither
           to
           prejudice
           the
           truth
           ,
           or
           their
           judgements
           in
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           if
           that
           ,
           and
           such
           lately
           or
           more
           then
           ever
           practised
           courses
           shall
           not
           be
           enough
           to
           raise
           and
           swell
           the
           rates
           and
           prices
           of
           all
           sorts
           of
           Provisions
           and
           Commodities
           in
           London
           ,
           and
           the
           Counties
           within
           100
           miles
           or
           more
           of
           the
           circumference
           of
           it
           ,
           the
           unreasonable
           and
           extorting
           reckonings
           and
           Items
           of
           the
           Cooks
           and
           Vintne●s
           in
           London
           and
           Westminster
           ,
           and
           their
           Suburbs
           ,
           to
           their
           prodigall
           and
           unthriving
           Guests
           who
           (
           in
           a
           custome
           near
           of
           kin
           to
           madness
           or
           the
           biggest
           sorts
           of
           follies
           which
           other
           Nations
           do
           never
           or
           so
           little
           use
           as
           they
           wonder
           at
           it
           )
           do
           first
           eat
           their
           meat
           and
           delicacies
           ,
           and
           leaving
           themselves
           afterwards
           to
           the
           curtesies
           ,
           and
           as
           little
           co●science
           of
           the
           Cooks
           and
           Vintners
           ,
           what
           they
           shall
           pay
           for
           it
           ,
           will
           be
           sure
           to
           be
           a
           means
           to
           raise
           the
           rates
           and
           prices
           of
           victuals
           ,
           and
           by
           their
           example
           impose
           it
           upon
           others
           ,
           as
           high
           as
           the
           sharking
           of
           those
           that
           ask
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           e●siness
           and
           carelessness
           of
           those
           that
           yield
           un●o
           it
           can
           lift
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           whilst
           they
           can
           pay
           their
           duties
           and
           rents
           of
           
           Blackmail
           and
           Cornage
           in
           many
           of
           the
           Northern
           Counties
           ,
           which
           were
           at
           the
           first
           only
           yearly
           paid
           unto
           their
           Landlords
           for
           their
           protection
           against
           the
           Scottish
           Incursions
           now
           not
           at
           all
           either
           feared
           or
           endured
           ;
           
           and
           there
           and
           in
           other
           places
           pay
           Tithes
           though
           many
           times
           more
           in
           valuation
           then
           they
           were
           one
           hundred
           years
           agoe
           ,
           three
           shillings
           four
           pence
           
             per
             annum
          
           for
           respits
           of
           Suit
           of
           Court
           ,
           when
           there
           are
           not
           any
           Courts
           kept
           for
           many
           years
           together
           ,
           or
           not
           all
           ;
           and
           Toll
           in
           many
           Cities
           and
           Corporations
           ,
           which
           being
           granted
           for
           some
           few
           years
           for
           Murage
           ,
           or
           the
           repairing
           or
           building
           of
           the
           walls
           of
           some
           Cities
           or
           Towns
           ,
           is
           ,
           as
           is
           to
           be
           feared
           ,
           yet
           continued
           and
           taken
           ,
           though
           the
           walls
           being
           almost
           ruined
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           rubbidge
           ,
           do
           now
           only
           serve
           to
           build
           houses
           upon
           ,
           can
           willingly
           take
           the
           benefit
           of
           their
           small
           Quit-rents
           for
           Mannopera
           and
           
             Carropera
             Precaria
          
           ,
           and
           Harvest
           work
           to
           some
           Landlords
           who
           for
           many
           years
           have
           neither
           had
           Corn
           nor
           Hay
           to
           cut
           or
           carry
           ;
           and
           for
           other
           services
           anciently
           due
           unto
           the
           Lords
           of
           Leets
           and
           Manors
           ,
           which
           may
           now
           be
           believed
           to
           have
           been
           compounded
           for
           at
           easie
           and
           small
           rates
           ,
           when
           as
           some
           of
           the
           Tenants
           of
           the
           Church
           Revenue
           of
           Canterbury
           ,
           did
           pay
           but
           a
           penny
           
             per
             annum
          
           for
           that
           which
           was
           a
           rent
           of
           Twenty
           Eggs
           ,
           
           now
           sold
           in
           London
           for
           a
           penny
           an
           Egg
           ;
           and
           for
           Hens
           and
           Benerth
           ,
           which
           was
           a
           service
           of
           the
           Cart
           and
           Plough
           but
           sixteen
           pence
           
             per
             annum
          
           ;
           and
           do
           yet
           notwithstanding
           as
           many
           services
           perhaps
           as
           were
           bought
           or
           compounded
           for
           by
           their
           Quit-rents
           ,
           though
           at
           the
           same
           time
           their
           Lords
           ,
           if
           they
           would
           truly
           execute
           the
           power
           intrusted
           unto
           them
           by
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Laws
           ,
           might
           in
           their
           Court
           Leets
           hinder
           and
           restrain
           their
           unreasonable
           and
           excessive
           rates
           and
           prices
           in
           the
           
           sale
           of
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           provisions
           ;
           pay
           the
           hundred
           penny
           ,
           
           which
           is
           a
           peny
           given
           to
           the
           support
           of
           the
           Bayliffs
           and
           Officers
           of
           Hundr●ds
           ,
           though
           in
           many
           of
           them
           no
           Hundred
           Courts
           at
           all
           a●e
           kept
           ,
           a
           Scot
           or
           Tax
           towards
           the
           maintenance
           of
           the
           Sheriff
           and
           his
           Officers
           ,
           who
           by
           their
           many
           illegall
           courses
           and
           exactions
           ,
           are
           not
           to
           seek
           the
           way
           to
           provide
           for
           themselves
           ,
           Ward-peny
           and
           Brigbote
           for
           watching
           and
           warding
           ,
           and
           amending
           of
           Bridges
           ,
           
           although
           they
           be
           yearly
           assessed
           in
           their
           Parishes
           for
           the
           same
           things
           ;
           much
           of
           the
           Romescot
           ,
           or
           Popish
           Chimney-money
           ,
           after
           the
           rate
           of
           a
           penny
           for
           every
           Chimney
           ,
           which
           when
           it
           was
           ancienly
           paid
           in
           England
           ,
           notwithstanding
           some
           opinions
           that
           it
           amounted
           unto
           a
           far
           greater
           summe
           ,
           was
           but
           300
           Marks
           )
           though
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           1
           Eliz
           .
           it
           be
           forbidden
           .
           And
           for
           Rode
           Knights
           ,
           
           or
           the
           service
           of
           being
           retained
           and
           and
           tied
           by
           their
           service
           or
           customes
           to
           attend
           their
           Lord
           or
           his
           Lady
           ,
           or
           Wife
           in
           their
           journeys
           ,
           or
           to
           Church
           ,
           though
           many
           of
           them
           will
           notwithstanding
           for
           good
           will
           ,
           and
           in
           hope
           of
           favours
           or
           benefits
           from
           their
           Landlords
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           ,
           Deputy-Lieutenants
           of
           the
           County
           ,
           or
           of
           such
           eminence
           and
           power
           as
           to
           be
           able
           to
           do
           them
           good
           or
           harme
           ,
           be
           offering
           those
           ,
           or
           many
           other
           services
           ,
           and
           glad
           when
           they
           are
           accepted
           .
        
         
           The
           Merchants
           in
           London
           can
           pay
           Scavage
           or
           Shewage
           ,
           
           which
           amounteth
           unto
           some
           hundred
           pounds
           
             per
             annum
          
           profit
           to
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           for
           leave
           to
           shew
           or
           expose
           their
           Wares
           or
           Merchand●zes
           to
           sale
           ,
           though
           they
           do
           privately
           sell
           their
           Wares
           and
           Commodities
           in
           their
           Dwelling-houses
           or
           Ware-houses
           ,
           and
           every
           petty
           Tradesman
           and
           Retailer
           hath
           ,
           as
           a
           Freeman
           of
           the
           City
           ,
           as
           much
           liberty
           at
           all
           times
           to
           expose
           to
           sale
           in
           
           his
           Shop
           ,
           or
           in
           his
           House
           any
           Commodities
           or
           Wares
           belonging
           to
           his
           Trade
           .
        
         
           The
           people
           of
           most
           Parishes
           can
           pay
           ten
           times
           more
           to
           the
           Poor
           then
           they
           did
           but
           forty
           years
           agoe
           ,
           and
           willingly
           contribute
           ;
           (
           and
           it
           is
           very
           well
           done
           to
           ease
           their
           Ministers
           ,
           who
           is
           but
           seldome
           troubled
           with
           a
           great
           Benefice
           )
           to
           the
           providing
           of
           Surplices
           ,
           Church-Bibles
           ,
           and
           Service-books
           ,
           though
           the
           Parsons
           or
           Impropriators
           have
           the
           Tithes
           and
           Glebes
           ,
           and
           can
           every
           where
           without
           any
           complaint
           or
           murmuring
           ,
           allow
           and
           rest
           contented
           with
           the
           Pigeon-houses
           of
           the
           Lords
           of
           Mannors
           ,
           and
           of
           other
           private
           men
           ,
           though
           they
           do
           yearly
           eat
           and
           devour
           as
           much
           
             Wheat
             ,
             Barley
             ,
             Beans
             ,
             Peace
          
           and
           Oat●
           of
           the
           Neighbourhood
           ,
           as
           the
           Pourveyance
           or
           Comp●sitions
           for
           it
           for
           the
           Kings
           House
           ,
           and
           Provender
           for
           his
           horses
           ,
           do
           yearly
           cha●ge
           the
           people
           .
        
         
           And
           whilst
           they
           can
           endure
           to
           pay
           more
           for
           their
           victuals
           ,
           apparel
           ,
           and
           necessaries
           ,
           Servants
           and
           Artificers
           wages
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           they
           have
           occasion
           to
           use
           through
           all
           the
           affai●s
           of
           humane
           life
           and
           occasions
           ,
           only
           because
           they
           that
           demand
           it
           ,
           will
           not
           ,
           or
           say
           they
           cannot
           afford
           it
           cheaper
           ,
           and
           be
           cheated
           and
           cozened
           yearly
           as
           much
           as
           will
           amount
           unto
           some
           hundred
           thousands
           of
           pounds
           sterling
           by
           false
           measures
           and
           weights
           ,
           by
           the
           sleepiness
           and
           fellow
           feeling
           of
           the
           Guilds
           or
           Fraternities
           of
           Companies
           of
           Trades
           ,
           &
           the
           carelesness
           and
           connivances
           of
           the
           Clerks
           of
           the
           Markets
           ,
           will
           notwithstanding
           murmur
           and
           repine
           at
           every
           little
           Oblation
           ,
           Payments
           ,
           and
           Duties
           to
           their
           King
           ,
           be
           as
           unwilling
           as
           they
           can
           to
           be
           satisfied
           of
           the
           reason
           of
           it
           ,
           but
           make
           Hue
           and
           Cry
           after
           them
           :
           And
           when
           as
           a
           lea●ned
           Gentleman
           hath
           well
           observed
           ,
           that
           the
           greatest
           care
           of
           good
           Subjects
           and
           Christians
           should
           be
           to
           fear
           God
           ,
           and
           
           honor
           the
           King
           ,
           do
           make
           it
           their
           business
           &
           best
           of
           their
           gains
           to
           cozen
           the
           King
           and
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           when
           shame
           hath
           not
           yet
           so
           left
           the
           world
           ,
           as
           to
           leave
           it
           without
           some
           little
           startling
           or
           blushing
           at
           the
           being
           known
           ,
           or
           discovered
           to
           have
           cozened
           any
           body
           ,
           will
           never
           at
           all
           be
           ashamed
           to
           have
           cozened
           the
           King
           all
           they
           can
           .
        
         
           Which
           kind
           of
           publ●que
           villany
           the
           Civil●
           Law
           so
           detested
           ,
           and
           desired
           to
           punish
           ,
           as
           they
           reckoned
           but
           a
           debtor
           to
           the
           Exchequer
           or
           Emperors
           Treasury
           ,
           being
           farre
           more
           innocent
           then
           those
           that
           cozen
           or
           defraud
           it
           amongst
           the
           number
           of
           the
           most
           heynous
           offenders
           
             tanquam
             minxerit
             in
             patrios
             ●ineres
          
           ,
           
           as
           one
           who
           had
           pisssed
           upon
           his
           Fathers
           (
           or
           Countries
           )
           Ashes
           ;
           and
           as
           Murderers
           or
           Adulterers
           ,
           denyed
           them
           the
           Sanctuary
           if
           they
           sought
           it
           of
           the
           Church
           .
        
         
           And
           when
           the
           Kings
           Royal
           Progenitors
           have
           taken
           so
           much
           care
           to
           prevent
           the
           decay
           of
           Tillage
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           25
           H.
           8.
           cap.
           13.
           to
           ordain
           that
           
             no
             man
             should
             keep
             more
             then
             two
             hundred
             sheep
             upon
             any
             land
             taken
             to
             farme
          
           ▪
           and
           for
           the
           increase
           of
           Tillage
           plenty
           ,
           and
           cheapness
           of
           Corn
           ,
           did
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           2
           Ed.
           6.
           cap.
           13.
           ordain
           that
           
             no
             Tithes
             should
             be
             paid
             for
             wast
             or
             Heath
             ground
             improved
             unto
             Tillage
             ,
             untill
             seaven
             years
             after
             the
             improvement
             ,
          
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           4
           ▪
           
             Jac.
             cap.
          
           11.
           made
           a
           
             Provision
             for
             Meadow
             and
             Pasture
             ,
             and
             the
             necessary
             maintenance
             of
             husbandry
             ▪
             and
             tillage
             in
             the
             Manors
             ,
             Lordships
             ,
             and
             Parishes
             of
          
           Merden
           ,
           alias
           Mawerden
           ,
           Boddenham
           ,
           Wellington
           ,
           Sutton
           St.
           Michael
           ,
           Sutton
           St.
           Nicholas
           ,
           Marton
           
             upon
             Lugg
             ,
             and
             the
             Parish
             of
          
           Pipe
           
             in
             the
             County
          
           of
           Hereford
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           7
           
             Jac.
             cap.
          
           11.
           
           That
           
             none
             should
             spoil
             corn
             and
             grain
             by
             untimely
             Hawking
          
           :
           and
           by
           another
           Statute
           in
           the
           same
           Parliament
           ,
           
           That
           
             Se●-sands
             might
             in
          
           Devonshire
           and
           Cornwall
           
             be
             fetched
             from
             the
             sea
             to
             manure
             Lands
             ,
             paying
             reasonable
             duties
             for
             the
             passage
             through
             ,
             or
             by
             other
             mens
             Lands
             with
             Boats
             and
             Barges
             .
          
           And
           the
           Assize
           of
           Bread
           throughout
           the
           whole
           Kingdome
           is
           by
           the
           Statute
           and
           Ordinance
           of
           51
           H.
           8.
           to
           be
           yearly
           made
           and
           regulated
           by
           the
           Baker
           of
           the
           Kings
           house
           ,
           do
           take
           all
           the
           care
           they
           can
           ,
           that
           the
           Bread
           for
           his
           Houshold
           ,
           and
           Oats
           and
           Provender
           for
           his
           horses
           may
           be
           at
           the
           dearest
           rates
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           then
           any
           of
           his
           Subjects
           do
           pay
           .
        
         
           And
           although
           he
           and
           his
           Royal
           Progenitors
           and
           Predecessors
           have
           made
           the
           best
           provisions
           they
           could
           for
           the
           breed
           of
           Cattle
           ,
           and
           cheapness
           of
           meat
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           24
           H.
           8.
           cap.
           9.
           forbidding
           
             the
             killing
             of
             weanling
             Calves
             under
             the
             age
             of
             two
             years
          
           ;
           That
           
             a
             milch
             Cow
             by
             the
             Statute
             of
          
           2
           &
           3
           Philip
           and
           Mary
           
             should
             be
             kept
             for
             every
             sixty
             Sheep
             ,
             and
             a
             Calf
             reared
             for
             every
          
           120
           Sheep
           .
           By
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           in
           8
           
             Eliz.
             cap.
          
           3.
           
           That
           
             no
             Sheep
             should
             be
             transported
          
           :
           and
           by
           several
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           otherwise
           ,
           encouraged
           the
           drayning
           of
           huge
           quantities
           of
           Fenne
           Lands
           ,
           and
           the
           imbanking
           of
           Marshes
           and
           Lands
           gained
           from
           the
           Sea
           ,
           and
           his
           now
           Majesty
           hath
           of
           late
           to
           help
           the
           breeders
           and
           sellers
           of
           Cattle
           in
           their
           reasonable
           prices
           thereof
           ,
           prohibited
           by
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           the
           bringing
           in
           of
           any
           Cattle
           which
           were
           heretofore
           usually
           and
           yearly
           brought
           into
           England
           in
           great
           heards
           out
           of
           Scotland
           and
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           doth
           yearly
           by
           his
           Royal
           Edicts
           and
           Proclamations
           ,
           as
           many
           of
           his
           noble
           Progenitors
           ,
           Kings
           and
           Queens
           of
           England
           ,
           have
           usually
           done
           ,
           enjoyned
           the
           strict
           observation
           of
           the
           Lent
           ,
           will
           
           notwithstanding
           for
           want
           of
           his
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           much
           of
           his
           houshold
           Provisions
           ,
           as
           they
           ought
           to
           be
           served
           in
           kind
           ,
           constrain
           him
           to
           pay
           in
           ready
           money
           intollerable
           dear
           rates
           and
           prices
           ,
           for
           that
           which
           his
           Officers
           have
           occasion
           to
           buy
           for
           the
           Provision
           of
           his
           Household
           .
        
         
           Who
           speed
           no
           better
           when
           they
           buy
           or
           provide
           his
           Fish
           of
           those
           who
           might
           have
           had
           so
           much
           duty
           and
           honesty
           as
           to
           afford
           it
           cheaper
           ,
           when
           his
           Royall
           Predecessors
           by
           the
           Statutes
           of
           13
           E.
           1.
           cap.
           47.
           and
           13
           R.
           2.
           cap.
           19.
           ordained
           severe
           penalties
           upon
           those
           that
           do
           take
           and
           destroy
           
             Salmons
             ,
             Lampries
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             Fish
             at
             unseasonable
             times
             ,
          
           or
           destroy
           
             the
             spawn
             of
             Fish.
          
           
        
         
           By
           the
           Statute
           of
           22
           Ed.
           4.
           cap.
           2.
           
           
             That
             Salmons
             ,
             Herrings
             and
             E●les
             be
             duly
             packed
             .
          
        
         
           By
           the
           Statute
           of
           11
           H.
           7.
           cap.
           23.
           
           That
           
             Englishmen
             may
             import
             and
             bring
             into
          
           England
           
             Fish
             taken
             by
             Forreigners
          
           .
        
         
           By
           the
           Statute
           of
           2
           Ed.
           6.
           cap.
           6.
           that
           
             no
             Officer
             of
             the
             Admiral●y
             should
             exact
             any
             thing
             of
             them
             which
             travailed
             for
             Fish.
             
          
        
         
           By
           the
           Statute
           of
           5
           
             Ellz.
             cap.
          
           6.
           
           
             Fishermen
             and
             Mariners
             shall
             not
             be
             compelled
             to
             serve
             as
             Souldiers
             upon
             the
             Land
             ,
             or
             upon
             the
             Sea
             ,
             but
             as
             Mariners
             ,
             except
             in
             case
             of
             Enemies
             ,
             or
             to
             subdue
             Rebellions
             .
          
        
         
           By
           the
           Statute
           of
           13
           
             Eliz.
             cap.
          
           10.
           
             allowed
             Sea-fish
             and
             Herring
             to
             be
             transported
             in
             English
             Ships
             with
             cross
             sails
             without
             payment
             of
             Customes
             .
          
        
         
           By
           the
           Statute
           of
           39
           
             Eliz.
             cap.
          
           10.
           ordained
           
             Aliens
             to
             pay
             for
             salted
             Fish
             ,
             and
             salted
             Herrings
             to
             be
             brought
             by
             them
             into
          
           England
           ,
           
             such
             Customes
             as
             shall
             be
             imposed
             in
             forreign
             parts
             upon
             the
             salted
             Fish
             and
             Herrings
             brought
             thither
             by
             Englishmen
             .
          
        
         
         
           And
           our
           now
           gracious
           Soveraign
           mainteyns
           a
           great
           Navy
           to
           assert
           and
           defend
           his
           Dominion
           and
           his
           Subjects
           sole
           right
           of
           Fishing
           in
           the
           British
           Seas
           ,
           and
           hath
           of
           late
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           his
           own
           wants
           for
           the
           better
           encouragement
           of
           his
           People
           to
           seek
           their
           own
           good
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           our
           British
           Seas
           will
           plentifully
           afford
           them
           ,
           given
           all
           his
           Customes
           inward
           and
           outward
           for
           any
           the
           retorns
           to
           be
           made
           by
           the
           sale
           of
           Fish
           in
           
             France
             ,
             Denmark
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Baltick
           Seas
           for
           seaven
           years
           from
           the
           first
           entrance
           into
           the
           intended
           Trade
           of
           Fishing
           .
        
         
           And
           when
           the
           Mayor
           of
           
             Kingstone
             upon
             Hull
          
           ,
           or
           his
           Officers
           can
           at
           the
           same
           time
           obteyn
           of
           them
           better
           penyworths
           ,
           and
           according
           to
           the
           directions
           of
           the
           Statute
           of
           33
           H.
           8.
           cap.
           33.
           have
           so
           good
           a
           Pourveyance
           allowed
           them
           ,
           as
           they
           can
           take
           of
           all
           
             Fishermen
             priviledged
             for
             every
             last
             of
             Herring
             xxd.
             for
             every
             hundred
             of
             salt
             Fish
             iiii
             d.
             for
             every
             Last
             of
             Sprats
             viii
             d.
             of
             every
             person
             not
             priviledged
             ,
             for
             every
             Last
             of
             Herring
             i●
             s.
             iiii
             .
             d.
             for
             every
             hundred
             of
             Salt-fish
             iiii
             d.
             and
             for
             every
             Last
             of
             Sprats
             viii
             d.
             as
             they
             did
             before
             the
             making
             of
             the
             said
             Statute
             .
          
        
         
           And
           when
           our
           Laws
           which
           have
           their
           life
           and
           being
           from
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Royall
           Progenitors
           ,
           have
           by
           the
           Statutes
           of
           3
           and
           4
           Ed.
           6.
           cap.
           22.
           and
           2
           and
           3
           Philip
           and
           
             Mary
             ,
             cap.
          
           5.
           provided
           ,
           that
           the
           
             prices
             of
             Butter
             and
             Cheese
             be
             not
             enhaunced
             ,
             nor
             any
             transported
             without
             licence
             .
          
           That
           
             the
             prices
             of
             Ale
             and
             Beer
          
           shall
           b●●he
           Statute
           of
           23
           H.
           8.
           
             be
             assessed
             at
             reasonable
             rates
             ,
             and
             the
             Barrels
             and
             Kilderkins
             gauged
             .
          
           That
           
             Spices
             and
             Grocery
             Ware
             shall
          
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           1
           
             Jac.
             cap.
          
           19.
           
             be
             garbled
             ,
             and
             not
             mingled
             .
          
           That
           Woods
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           35
           
             H
             ,
             cap.
          
           17.
           
           &
           13
           
             Eliz.
             cap.
          
           5.
           
             shall
             not
             be
             converted
             into
             Tillage
             or
             Pasture
             :
          
           And
           by
           the
           Statutes
           of
           7
           Ed.
           
           6.
           cap.
           7.
           
           &
           47.
           cap.
           14.
           that
           an
           Assize
           shall
           be
           kept
           as
           
             to
             the
             measures
             only
             of
             Coal
             ,
             Tallwood
             ,
             Bille●s
             ,
             and
             Faggots
             .
          
        
         
           And
           some
           of
           our
           Princes
           have
           given
           by
           their
           Charters
           many
           &
           great
           Liberties
           &
           Immunities
           to
           the
           Companies
           of
           Brewers
           and
           Woodmongers
           .
           And
           King
           James
           did
           in
           or
           about
           the
           11
           th
           year
           of
           h●s
           R●ign
           upon
           his
           granting
           of
           some
           priviledges
           to
           the
           Town
           and
           Colleries
           of
           
             N●wcastle
             upon
             Tyne
          
           ,
           cause
           the
           Host-men
           ,
           or
           Oast-men
           of
           Newcastle
           to
           covenant
           to
           and
           with
           the
           King
           (
           which
           they
           have
           seldome
           or
           never
           at
           all
           observed
           )
           yearly
           to
           serve
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           and
           places
           adjacent
           with
           Sea-coals
           Winter
           and
           Sommer
           ,
           at
           less
           then
           20
           shi●lings
           a
           Chaldron
           ,
           and
           it
           was
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           32
           H.
           8
           cap.
           8.
           ordained
           ,
           That
           
             none
             do
             sell
             Phesants
             or
             Partriches
          
           unto
           any
           but
           unto
           the
           Officers
           of
           the
           King
           ▪
           Queen
           ,
           or
           Princes
           Houses
           ,
           upon
           the
           forfeiture
           of
           6
           s.
           8
           d.
           for
           every
           Phesant
           ,
           and
           4
           s.
           4
           d.
           for
           every
           Partrich
           ;
           and
           did
           by
           their
           Charters
           ,
           or
           allowances
           of
           Prescription
           grant
           Free-warren
           ,
           and
           divers
           other
           Franchises
           unto
           divers
           Lords
           of
           Manors
           ;
           yet
           matters
           must
           be
           so
           ordered
           ,
           as
           the
           King
           ,
           though
           he
           buy
           with
           ready
           mony
           ,
           must
           be
           sure
           to
           pay
           dearer
           for
           his
           
             Butter
             ,
             Cheese
             ,
             Coals
             ,
             Beer
             ,
             Ale
             ,
             Billet
             ,
             Tallwood
             ,
             Faggots
             ,
             Grocery-ware
             ,
             Rabbets
             ,
             Phesants
          
           and
           Partriches
           ,
           then
           any
           of
           his
           Subjects
           .
        
         
           Took
           away
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           5
           Eliz.
           the
           severity
           of
           the
           Statute
           of
           25
           Ed.
           3.
           enjoyning
           small
           wages
           to
           Labourers
           and
           Artificers
           ,
           and
           ordained
           ,
           That
           
             the
             Justices
             in
             every
             County
             should
             by
             their
             discretion
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             dearth
             or
             plenty
             of
             victuals
             ,
             yearly
             at
             the
             Sessions
             held
             at
          
           Easte●
           ,
           
             assesse
             how
             much
             every
             Mason
             ,
             Carpenter
             ,
             Tyler
             ,
             &
             other
             Crafts
             men
             ,
             Workmen
             ,
             and
             Labourers
             ,
             should
             have
             by
             the
             day
             or
             year
             ,
             and
             limit
             proportions
             of
             Wages
             ,
             
             according
             to
             plenty
             or
             scarcity
             :
             and
             by
             an
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             made
             in
             the
             first
             year
             of
             the
             Reign
             of
             King
          
           James
           ,
           did
           amongst
           other
           things
           give
           a
           further
           power
           to
           the
           Justices
           of
           every
           County
           to
           limit
           and
           regulate
           the
           wages
           and
           hire
           of
           Labourers
           and
           Artificers
           ,
           according
           to
           plenty
           and
           scarcity
           ,
           that
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           being
           since
           expired
           for
           want
           of
           continuance
           ,
           yet
           the
           King
           in
           all
           his
           occasions
           and
           affairs
           for
           Workmen
           and
           Artificers
           shall
           be
           sure
           to
           pay
           them
           rates
           and
           wages
           at
           the
           highest
           .
        
         
           Did
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           23
           Ed.
           3.
           cap.
           6.
           provide
           ,
           That
           
             Butchers
             ,
             Fishmongers
             ,
             Brewers
             ,
             Bakers
             ,
             Poulterers
             ,
             and
             other
             Sellers
             of
             Victuals
             ,
             should
             sell
             them
             at
             reasonable
             prices
             ,
             and
             be
             content
             with
             moderate
             gains
             .
          
           And
           by
           the
           Statute
           of
           13
           R.
           2.
           ca.
           8.
           
           That
           
             all
             Majors
             ,
             Bayliffs
             ,
             Stewards
             of
             Franchises
             ,
             and
             all
             others
             that
             have
             the
             order
             and
             survey
             of
             victualls
             in
             Cities
             ,
             Boroughs
             ,
             and
             Market
             Towns
             ,
             where
             victuals
             shall
             be
             sold
             in
             the
             Realm
             ,
             should
             enquire
             of
             the
             same
             .
             And
             if
             any
             sell
             any
             victuals
             in
             other
             manner
             ,
             he
             should
             pay
             the
             treble
             of
             the
             value
             which
             he
             so
             received
             to
             the
             party
             damnified
             ,
             or
             in
             default
             thereof
             to
             any
             other
             that
             will
             pursue
             for
             the
             same
             .
          
        
         
           By
           the
           Statute
           of
           25
           Hen.
           8.
           cap.
           2.
           
             when
             but
             a
             year
             before
             Beef
             and
             Pork
             was
             by
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             ordained
             to
             be
             sold
             at
             an
             half
             penny
             the
             pound
             ,
             and
             Mutton
             and
             Veal
             at
             an
             half
             penny
             farthing
             the
             pound
             ,
             and
             less
             in
             Counties
             and
             places
             that
             may
             sell
             it
             cheaper
             ,
          
           and
           complaint
           was
           made
           in
           Parliament
           that
           the
           prices
           of
           victuals
           were
           many
           times
           enhaunced
           and
           raised
           by
           the
           greedy
           avarice
           of
           the
           owners
           of
           such
           victuals
           ,
           or
           by
           occasion
           of
           ingrossing
           and
           regrating
           the
           same
           more
           then
           upon
           any
           reasonable
           or
           just
           ground
           or
           cause
           ,
           ordained
           that
           
             the
             prices
             of
             Butter
             ,
             Cheese
             ,
             Capons
             ,
             Hens
             ,
             Chickens
             ,
             and
             other
             victual●
             necessary
             for
             mans
             sustenance
             ,
             
             should
             from
             time
             to
             time
             ,
             as
             the
             case
             should
             require●
             ,
             be
             set
             and
             taxed
             at
             reasonable
             prices
             how
             they
             should
             be
             sold
             in
             gross
             ,
             or
             by
             retail
             ,
             by
             the
             Lord
             Chancellor
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             Lord
             Treasurer
             ,
             Lord
             President
             of
             the
             Kings
             most
             honourable
             Privy
             Councel
             ,
             Lord
             Privy
             Seal
             ,
             Lord
             Steward
             ,
             the
             Chamberlain
             ,
             and
             all
             other
             the
             Lords
             of
             the
             Kings
             Councel
             ,
             Treasurer
             and
             Comptroller
             of
             the
             Kings
             most
             honourable
             House
             ,
             Chancellour
             of
             the
             Dutchy
             of
          
           Lancaster
           ,
           
             the
             Kings
             Justices
             of
             either
             Bench
             ,
             the
             Chancellor
             ,
             Chamberlains
             ,
             under
             Treasurer
             ,
             and
             Barons
             of
             the
             Exchequer
             ,
             or
             any
             seaven
             of
             them
             ,
             whereof
             the
             Lord
             Chancellor
             ,
             Lord
             Treasurer
             ,
             Lord
             President
             of
             the
             Kings
             Councel
             ,
             or
             the
             Lord
             Privy
             Seal
             to
             be
             one
             ,
             and
             commanded
             the
             Justices
             of
             Peace
             ,
             and
             Lords
             of
             Leets
             to
             take
             a
             care
             that
             the
             prices
             and
             rates
             of
             victuals
             be
             reasonable
          
           :
           Yet
           the
           King
           must
           not
           have
           so
           much
           favour
           and
           kindness
           as
           the
           Tinientes
           or
           Magistrates
           in
           the
           Canar●es
           ,
           or
           other
           parts
           of
           the
           Spanish
           Dominions
           ,
           who
           by
           reason
           of
           their
           power
           and
           authority
           in
           the
           correction
           and
           rating
           of
           the
           prices
           of
           victuals
           ,
           can
           have
           their
           provisions
           freely
           ,
           and
           of
           gift
           presented
           unto
           them
           ,
           or
           at
           small
           and
           reasonable
           rates
           and
           prices
           :
           or
           as
           the
           Lords
           of
           Leets
           ,
           the
           Justices
           of
           Assise
           ,
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           ,
           Mayors
           ,
           Magistrates
           of
           Cities
           and
           Corporations
           might
           have
           theirs
           ,
           if
           they
           would
           but
           put
           in
           execution
           the
           Laws
           which
           are
           entrusted
           to
           their
           care
           and
           charges
           .
        
         
           Nor
           can
           have
           any
           thing
           at
           reasonable
           rates
           ,
           but
           is
           enforced
           to
           pay
           dearer
           for
           the
           provisions
           of
           his
           house
           then
           any
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ;
           when
           as
           they
           that
           could
           receive
           his
           Majesties
           very
           large
           and
           unexampled
           Act
           of
           Oblivion
           ,
           can
           only
           afford
           him
           in
           their
           Market
           rates
           ,
           an
           Act
           of
           Oblivion
           for
           his
           protection
           and
           care
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           for
           his
           many
           favours
           and
           helps
           in
           all
           their
           occasions
           
           and
           necessities
           ,
           and
           for
           forgiving
           them
           many
           Millions
           of
           monies
           sterling
           ,
           or
           the
           value
           thereof
           ;
           and
           as
           unto
           too
           many
           of
           them
           are
           willing
           that
           our
           King
           and
           Head
           should
           in
           the
           rates
           of
           his
           victuals
           and
           houshold
           provisions
           bear
           the
           burden
           of
           their
           follies
           and
           irregularities
           .
        
         
           Of
           which
           the
           plenty
           or
           scarcity
           of
           money
           cannot
           be
           any
           principal
           or
           efficient
           cause
           ,
           as
           may
           be
           verified
           by
           an
           instance
           or
           example
           lately
           happened
           in
           Spain
           ,
           where
           the
           calling
           down
           of
           money
           to
           the
           half
           value
           ,
           to
           aswage
           the
           afflictions
           of
           a
           Famine
           ,
           was
           so
           farre
           ▪
           from
           the
           hoped
           for
           effect
           of
           abating
           the
           prices
           of
           victuals
           ,
           and
           houshold
           Provisions
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           now
           well
           assured
           ,
           that
           the
           covetousness
           of
           the
           Sellers
           and
           tricks
           of
           Trade
           have
           added
           more
           to
           the
           heightning
           of
           those
           rates
           and
           prices
           then
           any
           want
           or
           abundance
           of
           mony
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           would
           therefore
           well
           become
           that
           part
           of
           the
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           who
           by
           their
           intemperance
           and
           carelesness
           ,
           
           as
           i●
           they
           were
           that
           Nation
           
             which
             dwelt
             without
             care
          
           ,
           against
           whom
           the
           Prophet
           Jeremy
           denounced
           Gods
           heavy
           wrath
           and
           judgements
           ,
           have
           brought
           and
           reduced
           themselves
           and
           their
           Estates
           into
           a
           languishing
           and
           perishing
           condition
           ,
           and
           turned
           their
           backs
           upon
           the
           honor
           of
           Hospitality
           ,
           to
           take
           into
           their
           more
           then
           ordinary
           consideration
           ,
           
           that
           Sir
           
             Anthony
             Brown
          
           ,
           a
           Privy
           Councellor
           ●●to
           King
           Henry
           Eighth
           ▪
           did
           not
           deviate
           either
           from
           truth
           or
           prudence
           ▪
           when
           he
           said
           that
           
             others
             apprehension
             of
             the
             Kings
             greatness
             ▪
             did
             contribute
             as
             much
             to
             our
             welfare
             ,
          
           
           
             as
             our
             welfare
             it self
          
           ▪
           or
           Sir
           
             John
             Russel
          
           ,
           a
           v●ry
           valiant
           as
           well
           as
           wise
           Statesman
           ,
           Comptroler
           of
           the
           Houshold
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Eighth
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           Earl
           of
           Bedford
           ,
           when
           he
           declared
           that
           the
           
             Courts
             of
             Princes
             ,
             being
             those
             Epitomes
             through
             which
             ●trangers
             look
             into
             Kingdomes
             ,
             should
             be
             royally
             set
             out
             
             with
             utensils
             ,
             and
             with
             attendance
             ,
             who
             might
             possess
             all
             comers
             with
             reverence
             there
             ,
             and
             fear
             elsewhere
             .
          
        
         
           Or
           that
           the
           learned
           and
           reverend
           Sir
           
             James
             Dier
          
           ,
           
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           of
           the
           Court
           of
           Common-pleas
           in
           the
           25
           th
           year
           of
           the
           reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           committed
           an
           error
           ,
           when
           in
           the
           sage
           and
           discreet
           rules
           left
           behind
           him
           in
           a
           Manuscript
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           Common-wealth
           ,
           he
           advised
           that
           
             the
             Prince
             should
             often
             appear
             unto
             his
             People
             in
             Majesty
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             Courtiers
             should
             keep
             good
             houses
             .
          
           And
           if
           they
           will
           do
           no
           more
           ,
           to
           do
           but
           as
           much
           as
           the
           Beasts
           and
           Birds
           being
           irrational
           creatures
           ,
           do
           by
           their
           bodies
           natural
           ,
           make
           it
           their
           greatest
           care
           to
           protect
           and
           preserve
           the
           Head
           of
           our
           Body
           Politique
           ,
           and
           the
           honor
           and
           dignity
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           keep
           it
           above
           water
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           that
           by
           his
           gracious
           Government
           ,
           and
           return
           to
           us
           like
           the
           Sun
           to
           dispel
           the
           cold
           and
           uncomfortableness
           which
           the
           Winter
           of
           his
           absence
           had
           almost
           for
           ever
           fastned
           upon
           us
           .
           
             
               —
               Cum
               fixa
               manet
               reverentia
               patrum
               .
               
            
             
               Firmatur
               se●ium
               juris
               priscamquè
               resumunt
            
             
               Canitiem
               leges
               .
               —
            
          
           when
           our
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           our
           just
           and
           ancient
           Laws
           are
           again
           restored
           .
           
             
               —
               Claustrisque
               solutis
               .
            
             
               Tristibus
               exsangu●s
               andent
               procedere
               leges
               .
            
          
           and
           released
           from
           their
           former
           affrights
           and
           terrors
           .
        
         
           Not
           endeavour
           to
           abridge
           or
           endanger
           the
           hopes
           of
           our
           future
           happiness
           ,
           by
           being
           to
           sparing
           unto
           him
           that
           was
           not
           so
           unto
           us
           .
           
             
               —
               Jam
               captae
               vindex
               patriae
               
            
             
               Ut
               sese
               pariter
               diffudit
               in
               omnia
               regni
            
             
               Membra
               vigor
               vivusquè
               redit
               color
               urbibus
               aegris
               .
            
          
           
           and
           redeemed
           our
           happiness
           from
           its
           Captivity
           .
        
         
           But
           rather
           imitate
           the
           Clergie
           of
           the
           Bishopricks
           of
           Gloucester
           ,
           
           
             Chester
             ,
             Oxford
             ,
             Peterborough
          
           ,
           and
           Bristol
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           fourth
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           finding
           those
           Bishopricks
           to
           be
           much
           impoverished
           by
           the
           Earl
           of
           Leicester
           ,
           and
           some
           other
           ,
           who
           in
           their
           vacancies
           had
           gotten
           away
           a
           great
           part
           of
           the
           Revenues
           thereof
           ,
           did
           by
           their
           Benevolences
           for
           some
           years
           after
           enable
           the
           Bishops
           thereof
           in
           some
           tolerable
           degree
           to
           maintain
           their
           Hospitalities
           .
        
         
           
           And
           our
           long
           ago
           departed
           Ancestors
           ,
           who
           took
           it
           ill
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           John
           ,
           (
           with
           whom
           they
           had
           so
           much
           and
           more
           then
           they
           should
           contended
           for
           their
           Liberties
           )
           that
           
             Hubert
             Arch-bishop
          
           of
           Canterbury
           should
           keep
           a
           better
           House
           and
           Feast
           at
           Easter
           then
           the
           King.
           
        
         
           And
           that
           
             Cardinal
             Woolsey
          
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Eight
           should
           keep
           as
           great
           a
           state
           at
           Court
           as
           the
           King
           ,
           exercise
           as
           great
           an
           Authority
           in
           the
           Country
           for
           Pourveyance
           as
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           forbid
           Pourveyance
           to
           be
           made
           in
           his
           own
           Jurisdictions
           ,
           which
           made
           an
           addition
           to
           the
           Articles
           of
           High
           Treason
           ,
           or
           great
           Misdemeanors
           charged
           upon
           him
           by
           the
           Commons
           in
           Parliament
           brought
           up
           to
           the
           House
           of
           Peers
           by
           Sir
           
             Anthony
             Fitz-Herbert
          
           ,
           afterward
           a
           learned
           Judge
           of
           the
           Court
           of
           Common
           pleas
           .
        
         
           So
           that
           our
           King
           may
           not
           for
           want
           of
           his
           antient
           rights
           of
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           an
           Allowance
           or
           Compositions
           for
           them
           ,
           the
           later
           of
           which
           as
           a
           means
           to
           make
           so
           unquestionable
           a
           right
           and
           priviledge
           of
           the
           Crown
           of
           England
           to
           be
           alwayes
           gratefull
           and
           welcome
           to
           them
           ,
           was
           fi●st
           designed
           ,
           
           set
           on
           foot
           &
           contrived
           by
           Sir
           
             David
             Brook
          
           Serjeant
           at
           Law
           unto
           King
           Henry
           the
           Eighth
           ,
           and
           Lord
           Chief
           Baron
           of
           the
           Exchequer
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           
           
             Queen
             Mary
          
           ,
           and
           happily
           effected
           or
           brought
           to
           perfection
           in
           or
           about
           the
           4
           th
           year
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           be
           necessitated
           to
           retrench
           or
           lay
           down
           his
           Royal
           Housekeeping
           and
           Hospitalities
           ,
           or
           deprived
           of
           his
           means
           of
           Charity
           and
           Magnificence
           ,
           which
           
             Jacob
             Almansor
          
           the
           learned
           Arabian
           King
           ,
           who
           lived
           in
           Anno
           654.
           and
           conquered
           Spain
           ,
           
           was
           in
           his
           swarthy
           Dominions
           so
           carefull
           to
           preserve
           ,
           as
           after
           that
           he
           had
           given
           audience
           unto
           Suitors
           ,
           which
           were
           some
           dayes
           in
           every
           week
           ,
           he
           
             usually
             caused
             a
             publique
             cry
             to
             be
             made
             ,
             that
             all
             of
             them
             ,
             as
             well
             rich
             as
             poor
             ,
             should
             stay
             and
             take
             their
             refections
          
           ;
           and
           to
           that
           end
           
             furnished
             Tables
             for
             them
             with
             such
             abundance
             of
             provisions
             ,
             as
             became
             the
             house
             of
             so
             mighty
             a
             King.
             
          
        
         
           And
           that
           if
           any
           forreign
           King
           or
           Prince
           should
           as
           Cecily
           Sister
           to
           the
           King
           of
           Sweden
           ,
           and
           Wife
           to
           the
           Marquess
           of
           Baden
           ,
           did
           by
           a
           far
           &
           a
           long
           Voyage
           come
           from
           the
           North
           into
           England
           to
           visit
           our
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           
           and
           see
           the
           splendour
           of
           her
           Court
           (
           which
           as
           to
           her
           Charity
           ,
           splendour
           ,
           and
           Hospitality
           ,
           though
           so
           over-sparing
           in
           other
           things
           ,
           and
           so
           unwilling
           to
           draw
           monyes
           out
           of
           her
           Subjects
           purses
           ,
           as
           she
           lost
           the
           fair
           hopes
           and
           opportunity
           of
           regaining
           Calais
           ,
           which
           was
           so
           much
           desired
           by
           her
           )
           was
           very
           plentifully
           and
           magnificent
           ,
           and
           with
           the
           allowance
           of
           many
           more
           Tables
           then
           have
           been
           in
           the
           times
           of
           her
           Successors
           )
           they
           may
           return
           into
           their
           Country
           ,
           as
           that
           Princess
           did
           with
           a
           wonder
           at
           it
           ,
           and
           not
           be
           constrained
           to
           say
           as
           was
           once
           said
           of
           the
           glory
           of
           the
           Temple
           of
           
             Jerusalem
             ,
             Who
             is
             left
             amongst
             you
             that
             saw
             this
             house
             in
             her
             first
             glory
             ,
          
           
           
             and
             how
             do
             you
             see
             it
             now
          
           ;
           and
           that
           returning
           into
           the
           former
           good
           wayes
           ,
           manners
           ,
           and
           custome
           of
           England
           ,
           we
           may
           not
           be
           
             damnati
             fat●
             populi
          
           ,
           but
           ,
           
             virtute
             renati
          
           .
        
         
         
           And
           that
           to
           that
           end
           we
           shall
           do
           well
           to
           leave
           ou●
           new
           and
           untrodded
           By-wayes
           of
           Error
           ,
           made
           by
           the
           
             Raiser
             of
             Taxes
          
           ,
           
           and
           the
           Filchers
           of
           the
           Peoples
           Liberties
           in
           the
           Glory
           of
           anothers
           Kingdome
           ,
           now
           we
           have
           so
           wofully
           seen
           ,
           felt
           ,
           heard
           ,
           and
           understood
           so
           very
           many
           mischiefs
           and
           inconveniences
           already
           happened
           ,
           and
           if
           not
           speedily
           prevented
           ,
           are
           like
           to
           be
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           ,
           and
           hearken
           unto
           the
           voyce
           and
           dictates
           of
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           and
           Nature
           ,
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           and
           Nations
           ,
           Reason
           and
           Gratitude
           ,
           and
           let
           our
           Posterity
           know
           that
           the
           honor
           of
           our
           King
           and
           Country
           is
           dear
           unto
           us
           ,
           and
           that
           whatever
           becomes
           of
           our
           own
           Hospitalities
           ,
           we
           shall
           never
           be
           willing
           to
           let
           the
           Vesta●
           Fire
           of
           the
           British
           and
           English
           Hospitalities
           ,
           although
           most
           of
           our
           own
           are
           either
           extinguished
           or
           sunk
           into
           the
           Embers
           ,
           go
           out
           ,
           or
           be
           extinct
           in
           our
           King
           Palaces
           ,
           or
           to
           abjure
           or
           turn
           out
           of
           its
           course
           so
           great
           part
           of
           the
           Genius
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           but
           that
           we
           shall
           continue
           the
           duties
           of
           Praeemption
           and
           Pourveyance
           ,
           which
           are
           as
           old
           as
           the
           first
           Generations
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           and
           as
           antient
           as
           the
           duty
           of
           reverence
           of
           Children
           to
           their
           Parents
           .
        
         
           Dent
           Fata
           Recessum
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A54689-e170
           
             Accompts
             inter
             Evidentia
             Comitis
             Oxon.
             
          
           
             Stows
             
               Survey
               of
            
             London
             .
          
           
             Sieur
             Colberts
             
               Remonstrance
               of
               the
               benefit
               of
               the
               Trade
               to
               be
               driven
               by
               the
            
             French
             
               in
               the
            
             East-Indies
             .
          
           
             Lessius
             de
             Just.
             &
             Jur.
             lib.
             2.
             cap.
             21.
             n.
             148.
             
             Cokes
             4.
             part
             .
             Institutes
             12
             Ed.
             4.
             c.
             
               8.
               25
            
             
             H.
             8.
             cap.
             2.
             
          
           
             Epist.
             Rom.
             6.
             
          
           
             Speed
             
               Hist.
               of
            
             England
             .
          
           
             Heylin
             .
             hist.
             Ecclesiae
             Anglicanae
             domes
             reformatae
             .
          
           
             Waler
             .
             Max.
             lib.
             8.
             cap.
             5.
             
             &
             Cicero
             in
             oratione
             pro
             Muroena
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A54689-e2460
           
             
               Gervasius
               Tilburiensis
            
             .
          
           
             
               Assisa
               panis
               &
               cervisiae
            
             ,
             and
             a
             Statute
             for
             punishing
             the
             breach
             thereof
             by
             Pillory
             and
             Tumbrell
             Anno
             51
             H.
             3.
             
          
           
             
               Rot.
               Fin.
            
             11
             E.
             2.
             
             Cokes
             1.
             
               part
               .
               Institutes
            
             70
             
          
           
             
               Rot.
               parl
            
             .
             25
             
               ●
               ▪
            
             3.
             m.
             56.
             
          
           
             
               Inter
               Recorda
               in
               Recept
               .
               Scaccarii
               inter
               Fines
               de
               tempore
               H.
            
             3.
             
          
           
             
               Speed
               Hist.
               of
               Great
               Britain
            
             .
          
           
             
               M.
               S.
               in
               custodia
               Gulielmi
               Dugdale
               .
            
          
           
             
               Spelman
               Annotat.
               ad
               Concilia
               decreta
               &
               leges
               Ecclesiastica
            
             349.
             
          
           
             
               Asser
               Menevensis
               de
               gestis
               Alfredi
            
             19.
             
             &
             23.
             
          
           
             
               Henry
               Huntingdon
               and
               William
               Malmesbury
               de
               gestis
               regum
               Angliae
               .
            
          
           
             Speed
             History
             of
             England
             .
          
           
             Stows
             Survey
             of
             London
             .
          
           
             Stows
             Survey
             of
             
               London
               ,
               &
               Chronic
               .
               Robert
               Fabian
            
             —
          
           
             Heylin
             History
             of
             the
             Reformation
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             .
          
           
             
               Scrinia
               Ceciliana
            
             198.
             
             &
             199.
             
          
           
             
               Spelman
               glossar
               .
               in
               voce
               Forefang
               ,
               &
               LL.
               Inae
               ca.
               altero
               ante
               penult
               .
               Somners
               glossar
               .
               ad
               Brompton
               &
               alios
               veteres
               Angliae
               Historicos
               .
            
          
           
             
               Genesis
               c.
            
             41.
             
          
           
             Sir
             
               Francis
               Moores
            
             Reports
             764.
             
          
           
             Camden
             2.
             part
             Annalls
             of
             Queen
             Elizabeth
             .
          
           
             Vide
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             or
             Declaration
             touching
             the
             Settlement
             of
             Ireland
             .
          
           
             
               Craig
               de
               Feudis
               apud
               Scotos
               dieg
               .
            
             14.
             
          
           
             
               Parliament
               James
            
             1.
             c.
             8.
             
          
           
             
               Spelman
               Glossar
               .
               in
               voce
               Borrow
               mealis
               .
            
          
           
             2
             Parliament
             King
             James
             the
             4
             th
             .
          
           
             
               Choppinus
               de
               Domainio
               Regum
               Franciae
               lib.
            
             1.15
             .
          
           
             
               Tacitus
               de
               moribus
               Germanorum
            
             .
          
           
             
               Radenicus
               de
               gestis
               Frederici
               lib.
            
             2.
             ca.
             5.
             
          
           
             
               Besoldus
               de
               AErario
               principis
               &
               Bullinger
               de
               vectigalibus
               .
            
          
           
             
               Zecchius
               de
               principat
               .
               administrat
            
             .
          
           
             
               Varenius
               de
               Regno
               Japan
            
             .
          
           
             
               Genesis
               c.
            
             14.
             
          
           
             
               Grotius
               Anonotat
               ad
               Genesin
            
             .
          
           
             1
             Sam.
             17.
             
          
           
             1
             Sam.
             25.
             
          
           
             1
             Sam.
             25.
             
          
           
             2
             Sam.
             8.
             
          
           
             1
             Chron.
             21.
             
          
           
             2
             
               Reg
               ▪
               ca.
            
             4.
             
          
           
             Isaiah
             16.
             v.
             1.
             
             
               &
               Grotius
               Annot
               ad
               locum
            
             .
          
           
             Nehemiah
             4.17
             .
          
           
             Mr.
             Stephens
             Treatise
             of
             Synodals
             &
             Procurations
             
          
           
             
               Somner
               Glossar
               in
               appendice
               ad
               Brompton
               &
               ali●s
               veteres
               Historicos
               Angliae
               ▪
            
          
           
             
               Skaeneus
               tit
               .
               de
               Herezeldis
               in
               Quon
               .
               Attach
               .
               c.
            
             15.
             
             
               Alciat
               .
               lib.
            
             1.
             
             
               Parerg.
               c.
            
             45.
             
             
               &
               Spelman
               Glossar
               .
               in
               voce
               Heriotum
               &
               Neostadius
               de
               Feudis
               Hollandicis
               .
            
          
           
             
               Cowell
               interpret
               .
               verborum
            
             .
          
           
             Mich.
             4.
             
             E.
             1.
             
               coram
               Rege
            
             .
          
           
             Somners
             Treatise
             of
             Gavelkind
             .
          
           
             Cart.
             17
             H.
             3.
             m.
             6.
             in
             2.
             
               parte
               Dugdales
               Monastic
               .
               Anglic
            
             .
          
           
             
               Rot.
               pat
            
             .
             27
             &
             30
             H.
             6.
             
          
           
             
               Ex
               antiquo
               Codice
               M.S.
               de
               customes
               de
               London
               in
               Bibliotheca
               Cl.
               viri
               Galfridi
               Palmer
               Milit.
               &
               Baronetti
               Attorn
               .
               Generalis
               Regis
               Caroli
               secundi
               .
            
          
           
             
               Coke
               Comment
               .
               in
               Artic
               .
               super
               Chartas
            
             542
             543.
             
          
           
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             for
             Subsidies
             in
             3
             &
             4
             
               Car.
               primi
            
             .
          
           
             
               Charles
               Loyseau
               traictè
               des
               Seigneuries
            
             .
          
           
             Stows
             Survey
             of
             London
             .
          
           
             9
             H.
             3.
             
          
           
             Sir
             
               John
               Davies
            
             Treatise
             of
             Impositions
             .
          
           
             
               Ad
               Cur.
               tent
               .
               ibid.
               Anno
            
             5
             &
             8
             E.
             3.
             
          
           
             
               Glos.
               in
               verb.
               usque
               ad
               hoc
               tempus
               C.
               Servitium
            
             18.
             q.
             2.
             
          
           
             Sir
             
               John
               Heywards
            
             History
             of
             King
             Edward
             the
             6
             th
          
           
             Heylins
             History
             of
             the
             Reformation
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             .
          
           
             Stows
             Survey
             of
             London
             .
          
           
             Sir
             
               Francis
               Bacons
            
             letter
             to
             the
             Duke
             of
             Buckingham
             .
          
           
             
               Baldus
               in
               proaemio
               seudorum
               &
               in
               Consil.
            
             274.
             lib.
             3.
             
             
               Cynus
               in
               l.
               si
               viva
               matre
               de
               bonis
               matern
               .
               Bodin
               de
               Repub
               .
               lib.
            
             1.
             
             
               Besoldus
               dissert
               .
               politic
               .
               Juridic
               .
               de
               Juribus
               Majestatis
               ,
               ca.
            
             9.
             
          
           
             
               Genesis
               c.
            
             43.
             
          
           
             1
             
               Reg.
               ca.
            
             10.
             v.
             15.
             
             &
             25.
             
          
           
             
               Grotius
               Annotat
               .
               ad
               vet
               .
               testamentum
               .
            
          
           
             
               AElianus
               Hist.
               variar
               .
               lib.
            
             1.
             
             
               Brissonius
               de
               regno
               Persiae
               lib.
            
             1.
             
          
           
             
               Gervasius
               Tilburiensis
            
             .
          
           
             20
             H.
             3.
             
          
           
             
               Lois
               d'
               Orleans
               ouuertures
               de
               Parlement
               ca.
            
             8
             
          
           
             Exodus
             22.
             v.
             29.
             
          
           
             Deut.
             24.
             v.
             19
             ,
             20
             ,
             21.
             
          
           
             Stows
             Survey
             of
             London
             .
          
           
             
               Heylin
               Ecclesia
               restaurata
               ,
               or
            
             History
             of
             the
             Reformation
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             
               England
               .
               fol.
            
             114.
             
          
           
             
               Levit.
               ca.
            
             1.
             v.
             2
             ,
             3.
             
             
               &
               Levit.
            
             2
             ,
             3.
             
             &
             25
             Exod.
             21
             ,
             22
             ,
             23
             ,
             29
             
          
           
             Deut.
             15.
             
             &
             16.
             
          
           
             1
             Sam.
             15.
             
          
           
             2
             Sam.
             10.
             
          
           
             
               Plutarch
               Apothegm
            
             .
          
           
             Speed
             Hist.
             of
             
               Britain
               ,
               &
               Leiger
            
             Book
             of
             
               St.
               Albans
            
             .
          
           
             
               Zonaras
               in
            
             2
             
               part
               .
               Annal.
               Suetonius
               in
               vita
               August
               .
               Cassiodorus
               ,
               lib.
            
             6.
             
             Epist.
             7.
             
             
               &
               Rosinus
               de
               Antiquitat
               .
               Rom.
            
             54.
             
          
           
             
               Selden
               ad
               Marmora
               Arundeliana
            
          
           
             
               Mat.
               Paris
            
             549.
             
          
           
             
               Walsingham
               Hist.
               Angl.
            
             85.
             
          
           
             
               Rot.
               Parl.
            
             40
             E.
             3.
             m.
             78
             ,
             9.
             
          
           
             
               Rot.
               Parl.
            
             42
             E.
             3.
             m.
             7.
             
          
           
             
               Rot.
               Parl.
            
             17
             R.
             2.
             
          
           
             16
             R.
             2.
             
          
           
             Coke
             1.
             part
             .
             5.
             
             Reports
             .
             26
             
          
           
             
               M.
               S.
               Francisci
               Junii
               fil
               .
               Francisci
               Junii
               in
               diatrib
               .
               de
               vocibus
            
             Lord
             &
             Lady
             .
          
           
             20
             H.
             6.
             
          
           
             Vide
             Oath
             of
             the
             Treasurer
             and
             Comptroller
             of
             the
             Kings
             house
             .
          
           
             Cantic
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             Deut.
             23.
             v.
             4.
             
          
           
             Judges
             8.
             v.
             35.
             
          
           
             1
             Reg.
             10.
             
             &
             2
             
               Chron.
               ca.
            
             9.
             
          
           
             
               Bodin
               de
               Repub
            
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             
               Tacitus
               de
               moribus
               Germanorum
               ,
               ca.
            
             13
             ,
             &
             14.
             
          
           
             
               Hieron
               .
               Epist.
            
             
          
           
             
               In
               LL.
               Canuti
            
             102.
             
             
               &
               Dugdales
               Warwickshire
            
             illustrated
             ,
             679.
             
             &
             680.
             
          
           
             
               Dugdales
               Warwickshire
               illustrated
            
             ,
             317.
             
          
           
             Dant
             .
             4.
             
          
           
             
               Ex
               veteri
               libro
               M.
               S.
               Prioris
               de
               Spalding
               in
               Comitat.
               Lincoln
               ▪
               in
               Bibliotheca
               Antonii
            
             Oldfeild
             Baronetti
             .
          
           
             
               Spelman
               glossar
            
             .
             405.
             
               in
               voce
               Marletum
               .
               Dugdales
               Warwickshire
               illustrated
               .
               Pat.
            
             27.
             
             &
             30.
             
             H.
             6.
             
          
           
             Amos
             1.
             v.
             6.
             
          
           
             Isaiah
             58.
             v.
             6
             ,
             7.
             
          
           
             
               Marsellaer
               de
               legatis
            
             .
          
           
             Nehemiah
             5.17
             .
          
           
             Hebrews
             13.
             v.
             1.
             
             &
             2.
             
          
           
             
               Selden
               hist.
               of
               Tithes
            
             ,
             319
             ,
             320.
             
          
           
             
               Spelman
               glossar
               .
               in
               voce
               procuratio
               .
            
          
           
             
               Selden
               hist.
               of
               Tithes
            
             ,
             320.
             
          
           
             
               Dugdales
               Warwickshire
               illustr●ted
            
             373.
             
               &
               ex
               ipso
               autograph
            
             .
          
           
             
               Spelman
               glossar
               in
               voce
            
             Mails
             .
          
           
             
               Lambard
               Itinerar
            
             .
             212
             
          
           
             
               Spelman
               glossar
               .
               in
               voce
            
             Scot.
             
          
           
             
               Idem
               glossar
               in
               vocibus
            
             Ward-peny
             &
             Brigbote
             .
             
               Spelman
               glossar
               .
               in
               voce
            
             Romescot
             .
          
           
             voce●
             Rode-knight
             
          
           
             
               Spelman
               glossar
               .
               in
               vo●
            
             Scavage
             .
          
           
             
               Vzzonius
               de
               mandatis
               principum
               ,
               cap.
            
             7.
             
             §.
             1.
             
          
           
             Jeremy
             49.
             v.
             31.
             
          
           
             David
             Lloid
             
               in
               vita
            
             Antonii
             Brown
             militis
             .
          
           
             
               Idem
               in
               vita
            
             Johannis
             Russel
             militis
          
           
             
               Idem
               in
               vita
            
             Jacobi
             Dier
             militis
             .
          
           
             Claudian
             a●
             quarto
             Consulat
             .
             honor
             ▪
             
          
           
             Claudian
             de
             Bello
             Getico●
             
          
           
             Heylin
             
               hist.
               Ecclesiae
               Anglicanae
               reformatae
            
             .
          
           
             Speed
             
               hist.
               of
            
             England
             .
          
           
             David
             Lloid
             
               in
               vita
            
             Davidis
             
               Brook
               ,
               militis
            
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             life
             of
             Almansor
             ,
             translated
             out
             of
             the
             Arabick
             by
             
               Robert
               Ashley
            
             .
             J.
             C.
             
          
           
             Heylin
             
               hist.
               Ecclesiae
               Anglicanae
               reformatae
            
             ▪
             
          
           
             Haggai●
             ▪
             
          
           
             Dan.
             11.
             v.
             20.